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Matilda Anne (Planché) Mackarness (1826-1881)

Description

writer for children

Biography

Younger daughter of James Robinson Planché, the dramatist, she married (1852) the Rev. Henry S. Mackarness (d. 1868), brother of John Fielder Mackarness. She was left a widow with seven children, lived with her father, wrote children's books [DNB]