Maria and Harriet Falconar were English or Scottish sisters who published joint collections of poems while in their teens in the late 1780s.
Another possibility is that they were the children of the Scottish poet William Falconer (1732–1769) and his wife Jane, née Hicks.
The subscribers to the volume were headed by the Duke of Northumberland and included two Falconer names based in Nairn and Inverness.
[2] In 1791, aged 20 and 17, they authored a volume called Poetic Laurels, addressed to the Prince of Wales (later George IV of the United Kingdom).
It is thought possible that they continued to write under their married names and future research may reveal more work by them.