Mary Meeke

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Mary Meeke was a prolific author of around 30 novels published by the Minerva Press during the early 19th century, and is believed to have died in October 1816.

She sometimes used the pseudonym 'Gabrielli', and probably married a clergyman and poet, the Reverend Francis Meeke (B.A. 1773, M.A. 1776, Cambridge). Her novels include: The Abbey of Cluny, The Mysterious Wife, Anecdotes of the Altamont Family, and Which is the Man?.

"Our public schools," Mary Meeke said in her time, "are mere hot-beds for the encouragement of vice and dissipation, which flourish in still greater perfection at college; and as for the grand tour, "why, half those who undertake it return greater fools than they set out".