Life
1677-1715 [The Hon. Mrs. Monk; var. Monck]; dg. Viscount of Molesworth
[supra]; a linguist; m. George Monk; her ‘Marinda’ poems published
by her father at her early death, as Marin[d]a, Poems
and Translations Upon Several Occasions (1716). RR ODNB CAB
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References
Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies (1821), Vol.
II, p.437, Monk, Hon. Mary.
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Notes
Frances H. Gerard, Some Celebrated Irish Beauties of the
Last Century [Vol. i], (1895), incls. Mary Molesworth; see also Marghanita
Laski, Mrs Ewing, Mrs. Molesworth, and Mrs Hodgson [blue stockings]
(London 1950).
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