Surname: Roberts Forename(s): Mary b. 18 March 1788. d. 13 January 1864. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and natural historian. Alternative signature: “Miss Roberts.” Born in London
to a Quaker family but left the Society of Friends in 1807. Worked for the Society
for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace as part of her devotion to self-described
prophet Joanna Southcott. Never married. Author of Annals of My Village (1831). Biographical information: ODNB. (SP)