Currie, Mary Montgomerie (1843–1905)

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Currie, Mary Montgomerie (1843–1905)

British baroness, poet, novelist and essayist. Name variations: Mary Singleton; Lady Currie; Baroness Currie of Hawley; (pseudonyms) V; Violet Fane. Born Mary Montgomerie Lamb, Feb 24, 1843, in Sussex, England; died Oct 13, 1905, in Yorkshire, England; dau. of Charles James Saville Montgomerie Lamb and Anna Charlotte Grey Lamb; m. Henry Sydenham Singleton, 1864 (died 1893); m. Sir Philip Henry Wodehouse Currie, later Baron Currie of Hawley, 1894.

Well known in London society, wrote works of gentle satire; poetry collections include From Dawn to Noon: Poems (1872), Denzil Place: A Story in Verse (1875), Collected Verses (1880), and Under Cross and Crescent: Poems (1986); novels include Thro' Love and War (1886) and The Story of Helen Davenant (1889); collections of essays include The Edwin and Angelina Papers (1875) and Collected Essays (1902).

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