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Mary Darwall (née Whateley, 1738 – 5 December 1825), who sometimes wrote as Harriett Airey, was an English poet and playwright. She was a member of the Shenstone Circle of writers that gathered around William Shenstone in the English Midlands. ==Life and work== Born in Beoley, Worcestershire into a prosperous farming family, Mary Whateley had little formal education, but by 1759 she was having poems published in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' under the name Harriett Airey. In 1760 Whateley moved to Walsall in Staffordshire to work as a housekeeper for her brother. Their her poetry came to the attention in 1761 of William Shenstone, who was highly impressed: "That she has generous and delicate sentiments, as well as ingenuity, may, I think, be fairly concluded from the whole tenor of her Poetry." Her first volume of ''Original Poems on Several Occasions'' was published by Robert Dodsley in 1764. It contained 30 works, including odes and hymns and the satire "The Power of Destiny", which contemplated how different her existence would have been had she been born male.〔 In 1766 Whateley married the widowed clergyman John Darwall, by whom she had six children. She continued to write, producing hymns for her husband's congregation and writing a play for a local theatre.〔 On the death of her husband in 1789, she moved to Deritend, Birmingham, and then again in 1793 to Newtown in Montgomeryshire, from where she published her second collection of poetry ''Poems on Several Occasions'' in 1794.〔 She died in Walsall on 5 December 1825.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Whateley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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