Leadbeater Mary Compiled (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. New edition, 1849, 'containing many valuable Letters never before published'. Very worn copy in brown blind-stamped cloth, 272 pages. Spine covering absent, front hinge broken, rear hinge cracked, a few pages at the beginning of the book detached, pages age-toned and a bit brittle but generally very good, institutional library bookplate on front pastedown, personal names in pencil on preliminary blank, institutional stamps on title page, no other library markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Second Edition. 8vo. 297pp. Sligtly foxed in places, inscription of previous owner, covers rubbed. Otherwise very good in contemporary calf binding. Mary [nee Shackleton] Author, Poet and Diarist was born at Ballitore in County Kildare, the second child of the three daughters and one son of Richard Shackleton [1726-1792] and his second wife Elizabeth Carleton [1726-1804]. Mary was a collateral relative of the distinguished explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The Shackletons were ardent members of The Religious Society of Friends. They established Ballitore the only planned and permanent quaker settlement in eighteenth century Ireland.Mary married William Leadbeater [1763-1827], a landowner, farmer, businessman, and quaker convert originally of Huguenot extraction. they had six children. Mary Leadbeater kept a diary all through her life which ran into 55 volumes. Her most famous work is The Annals of Ballitore. Her grandfather established the School at Ballitore to which flocked students from the continent and England as well as Ireland. Edmund Burke was one of its most illustrious students. He maintained a correspondence with Mary Leadbeater all his life. She also corresponded with Maria Edgeworth and George Crabbe.