A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Huber, Mary

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HUBER, MARY

A voluminous author, was born at Geneva, in 1710. The manner of her education is not particularly known. Her principal works are, "Le monde fou, préferé au monde sage;" "Le Systême des Théologians Anciens et Modernes, sur l'etat des ames séparées des corps;" "Suite du même ouvrage, servant de response h, M. Ruchat;" "Reduction du Spectateur Anglais." This was an abridgment of the "Spectator," but did not succeed. "Lettres sur la Réligions essentielle à l'homme." Mary Huber was a Protestant, and this latter work in particular was attacked by the divines of the Roman Catholic communion. She had wit and knowledge, but was sometimes coarse in her expressions. She died at Lyons, in France, in 1763.