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Kelty, Mary Ann (1789-1873)
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or Mary Anne; M. A. K.; Miss Kelty pseudonym: Herself
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novelist, religious writer, autobiographer, musician, editor, needlewoman
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born in Cambridge, England, to an Irish father
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daughter of Ann & Peter Kelty, surgeon
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Quaker-sympathizer
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• wrote The Favourite of Nature Osmond The Story of Isabel Religious Thoughts The Speculator and the Believer Early Days in the Society of Friends Memoirs of the Lives and Persecutions of the Primitive Quakers Facts and Feelings Waters of Comfort Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling The Solace of a Solitaire Alice Rivers, or, Passages in the Life of a Young Lady Biography for Young Ladies