Mary Russell Mitford | |
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![]() Portrait of Mary Russell Mitford by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1824 | |
Born | New Alresford, City of Winchester, England | 16 December 1787
Died | 10 January 1855 Swallowfield, Berkshire, England | (aged 67)
Occupation | Novelist |
Mary Russell Mitford (16 December 1787 – 10 January 1855) was an English essayist, novelist, poet and dramatist. She was born at Alresford in Hampshire. She is best known for Our Village, a series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters based upon her life in Three Mile Cross near Reading in Berkshire.