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Mary Monck (; 1677?1715) was a celebrated 
Mary Monck
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
;Attribution Year of birth unknown Year of birth uncertain 1715 deaths 17th-century Irish poets 17th-century Irish women writers 18th-century Irish poets 18th-century Irish women writers Daughters of viscounts Irish women poets Writers from County Dublin {{Ireland-poet-stub
beauty
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and poet
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. Digital version at Library Ireland.
Life
She was the second daughter ofRobert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth
Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth (7 September 1656 – 22 May 1725) was an Anglo-Irish politician and writer.
Molesworth came from an old Northamptonshire family. He married Hon. Letitia Coote, daughter of Richard Coote, 1st Baron ...
, and Letitia Coote, third daughter of Richard, Lord Coloony, and sister of Richard, Earl of Bellamont.
She became the first wife of George Monck of St Stephen's Green
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, Dublin
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, and died at Bath
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in 1715. They had two daughters (the eldest, Sarah Monck, died in 1739) and one son, Henry Stanley Monck of St Stephen's Green, who died in 1745.
Works
By her own application she acquired a knowledge of the Latin, Italian, and Spanish languages, and read muchEnglish literature
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. Some poems by her appeared shortly after her death under the title of ''Marinda. Poems and Translations upon several occasions,'' London, 1716, 8vo.
On her deathbed she wrote some very affecting verses to her husband, which are not included in her works, but which were printed in George Colman and Bonnell Thornton Bonnell Thornton (1725–1768) was an English poet, essayist, and critic. He was educated at Westminster School, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1747.
In 1752 Thornton founded the ''Drury Lane Journal'', a satirical periodi ...
's anthology
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'' Poems by Eminent Ladies''.
References
External links
Mary Monck
at th
Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
;Attribution Year of birth unknown Year of birth uncertain 1715 deaths 17th-century Irish poets 17th-century Irish women writers 18th-century Irish poets 18th-century Irish women writers Daughters of viscounts Irish women poets Writers from County Dublin {{Ireland-poet-stub