A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Leapor, Mary

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LEAPOR, MARY,

Was born in Northamptonshire, in 1712, her father having been many years gardener to a gentleman in that county. Her education was suitable to her humble rank, but her attainments far surpassed all expectation. Her modesty kept her merit concealed till it was too late for her to reap any temporal emoluments from her writings. She died in her twenty-fourth year, and, when on her death-bed, gave her father a collection of papers, containing original poems, which were afterwards published. Some of these poems are very good. She also wrote a tragedy entitled "The Unhappy Father."