Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, children’s writer, educational writer. Alternative signature: Mrs. Cockle. Father was Charles Roope. Married George Cockle in 1801, later separating from him and working as a governess. Publications include The Juvenile Journal; or Tales of Truth (1807), Important Studies, for the Female Sex, in Reference to Modern Manners, etc. (1809), Simple Minstrelsy (1812), National Triumphs (1814), Reply to Lord Byron’s Fare Thee Well (1817). Biographical information: Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry https://jacksonbibliography.library.utoronto.ca/author/details/cockle-mary/3004 (22 February 2022). (AC)