Ann Masterman Skinn

Ann Masterman Skinn
BornAnn Emelinda Masterman
1747
York, England
DiedMarch 23, 1789(1789-03-23) (aged 41–42)
Margate, England
OccupationNovelist
NationalityEnglish

Ann Emelinda Skinn (née Masterman; 1747 – 1789) was an English novelist.[1]

Ann Masterman was born in 1747, most likely in York as she states on the title page of her work, The Old Maid, that York is her "native place." Masterman died in poverty on 23 March 1789 in Margate, Kent, at the age of 41.[2]

She is the author of only one known work, The Old Maid,[3] published in 1771.

Bibliography

  • The old maid; or, history of Miss Ravensworth. In a series of letters. By Mrs. Skinn, Late Miss Masterman, of York. In three volumes. Printed for J. Bell at his Circulating-Library, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; and C. Etherington, at York, 1771.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Ann Masterman Skinn © Orlando Project". orlando.cambridge.org. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  2. ^ Wallace, John Malcolm (1985). The Golden & the Brazen World: Papers in Literature and History, 1650-1800. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520054011.
  3. ^ Skinn, Ann Emelinda (29 May 2010). The Old Maid; Or, History of Miss Ravensworth. in a Series of Letters. by Mrs. Skinn, ... in Three Volumes. ... Volume 2 of 3. Gale Ecco, Print Editions. ISBN 9781170650318.
  4. ^ Skinn, Ann Emelinda. The old maid; or, history of Miss Ravensworth. In a series of letters. By Mrs. Skinn, Late Miss Masterman, of York. In three volumes. The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 1806. Accessed 2022-06-12. (WPHP).


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