SCHIMMELPENNINCK, Mary Anne; HANKIN, Christina C. (ed.).

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Life. First edition, an account of the intellectual and spiritual development of an author with wide-ranging interests, including philosophy, religion, languages, and travel. Schimmelpenninck also touches on the societal position of women, stating that far from existing merely to do the will of men, women had to "have patience with men, which they would never have with each other!" (vol. I, p. 345).Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1778-1856) showed intellectual promise from an early age and received an extensive, if informal, education. From then on, "her happiness was ever centred in her books" (vol. II, p. 3). She began to publish her writing after her husband, who worked in the shipping trade, experienced financial difficulties. She dictated Volume I of her autobiography to her niece, Hankin, but died before the project could be completed. Hankin drew on Schimmelpenninck's letters to write Volume II, commenting that the correspondence manifested her aunt's "fine intellect, extensive reading, and high mental culture" (vol. II, p. 3).

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