Mary Pix (1666 – 1709) was an English novelist and playwright. Church records indicate that she lived in London, marrying George Pix, a merchant tailor from Hawkhurst, Kent in 1684. Baptismal records reveal that she had two sons, George (1689) and William (1691). It appears that George died in 1690.
She was born in 1666, the daughter of a rector, musician and Headmaster of the Royal Latin School; her father Roger died when she was very young, but...
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Mary Pix (1666 – 1709) was an English novelist and playwright. Church records indicate that she lived in London, marrying George Pix, a merchant tailor from Hawkhurst, Kent in 1684. Baptismal records reveal that she had two sons, George (1689) and William (1691). It appears that George died in 1690.
She was born in 1666, the daughter of a rector, musician and Headmaster of the Royal Latin School; her father Roger died when she was very young, but Mary and her mother continued to live in the schoolhouse after his death. She was courted by her father’s successor Thomas Dalby, but he left with the outbreak of smallpox in town, just one year after the mysterious fire that burned the schoolhouse.
Mary Griffiths (her maiden name) married George Pix, a merchant, and moved to his country state in Kent. Her first son, George, died very young, but the next year they moved to London and she gave birth to another son, William. While living in London and when she was 30, she became a professional...
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