Mary Whateley

Mary Whateley

1738 – December 05, 1825

Mary Darwall (née Whateley, 1738 – 5 December 1825), who sometimes wrote as Harriett Airey, was an English poet and playwright. She was a member of the Shenstone Circle of writers that gathered around William Shenstone in the English Midlands. She later explored subjects that included the nature of female friendship and the place of women writers.