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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cork, Mary Boyle, Countess of, d. 1840 DNB: Boyle [née Monckton], Mary [Maria], countess of Cork and Orrery (1746-1840), literary hostess LBT ID: LyCork7 VIAF ID: 100750378 LOC ID: no2009139509 | B/BAP: 1746-05-21 DIED: 1840-05-30 |
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Literary hostess; in youth she entertained Johnson and Boswell, in age Scott and Byron.
In 1786 she married Edmund Boyle, seventh earl of Cork. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Mary Boyle, countess of Cork and Orrery [née Monckton]: Countess of Cork to Lady Morgan, 25 October [1831] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Countess of Cork to Lady Morgan, 3 April 1830 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) | |
