Mary Ann Hanway (1755–1824)

Mary Ann Hanway, née Vergy, is known to have published four novels between 1798 and 1814: Ellinor or the World as it is (1798), Andrew Stuart or the Northern Wanderer (1800), Falconbridge Abbey: A Devonshire Story (1809) and Christabelle, the Maid of Rouen (1814). Although the travel book A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland (1777) is sometimes attributed to her, many literary scholars doubt that she was the author.