Mary Grimstone
Mary Leman Grimstone (12 June 1796 – 4 November 1869) was a British poet and novelist. She wrote about women's rights and one of the first Australian novels, Louise Egerton. Life Born in Beccles in Suffolk as Mary Rede, her father was Leman Thomas Rede. He was a barrister and writer, but was imprisoned for debt shortly before her birth. In 1798, the family moved to Hamburg in an attempt to escape creditors, where Mary's brother William Leman Rede was born. After Leman died in 1810, Mary's mother moved the family to London. Mary began writing in 1815, with much of her early work published in La Belle Assemblée. The following year, she married Richard Grimstone. She came to wider attention in 1820, when a volume of her poems was published, under the pseudonym "Oscar", and with the title Zayda, a Spanish Tale. Another volume was published the following year as Cleone, while her first novel came out in 1825, The Beauty of the British Alps. That year, her husband died, and she moved to Hobart in Van Diemen's Land with her sister Lucy, and her brother-in-law. Grimstone returned to London in 1829, her time in Australia providing much material