Mary Scott (poet)
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Mary Scott, who became Mary Taylor after her marriage, was an English poet originating from Milborne Port, Somerset. Notable for her literary contributions, Scott authored "The Female Advocate" in 177
Title page of Mary Scott's The Female Advocate (1774)
The Feminead
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John Duncombe published his "canon-forming" celebration of British women writers as The Feminiad in 1754, though the title was revised as The Feminead in the second, 1757 edition.
Mary Scott (poet)
…else is known about her life before the publication of The Female Advocate, dedicated to her friend Mary Steele, in 1774. Scott credits John Duncombe's The Feminead (1754), a poem in praise of the accomplishments of women writers, as the inspiration for her own poem. The poem consists of 522 lines of rhyming couplets…
Title page of John Duncombe's The Feminead (1754), 2nd edition (1757)(Google Books)