Mary Leapor
Mary Leapor | |
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Title page, Poems Upon Several Occasions (1748) by Mary Leapor | |
| Born | 26 February 1722 Marston St Lawrence, Northamptonshire, England |
| Died | 12 November 1746 (aged 24) Brackley, Northamptonshire, England |
| Occupation | Poet |
Mary Leapor (1722–1746) was an English poet, born in Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, the only child of Anne Sharman (died 1741) and Philip Leapor (1693–1771), a gardener. She, out of the many labouring-class writers of the period, was noticeably well received.