Heron

MARY HERON (fl. 1786)

Mary Heron, while living in Durham, published Sketches of Poetry in 1786. In the preface, she pleads youth and 'confined education' to excuse inferiority to Thomson or Pope. She also published Miscellaneous Poems, which has more pieces. These conventional poems, dating back to 1781, include nature-descriptions, compliments, politics (she deplores Cornwallis's 'Capitulation in America') and an 'Address to Sensibility'.

The Conflict, an epistolary novel full of refined feelings, was published in Newcastle in 1790, and reprinted in London in 1793. In Odes (Newcastle 1792) she apologises for presuming to express (conservative) political views.

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
MARY HERON (fl. 1786) Mary Heron, while living in Durham, published Sketches of Poetry in 1786. In the preface, she pleads youth and 'confined education' to excuse inferiority to Thomson or Pope. She also published Miscellaneous Poems, which has more pieces. These conventional poems, dating back to 1781, include nature-descriptions, compliments, politics (she deplores Cornwallis's 'Capitulation in America') and an 'Address to Sensibility'. The Conflict, an epistolary novel full of refined feelings, was published in Newcastle in 1790, and reprinted in London in 1793. In Odes (Newcastle 1792) she apologises for presuming to express (conservative) political views.
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