Jael Pye

She is known to have authored four works, all of different genres: a piece of garden writing, a collection of poetry, a play, and a two-volume novel.

[1] Weintraub reports that his name was Solomon Mendes (or Mendez), a 'wealthy and literary-minded businessman known to the Disraelis'.

[1][3] Pye was born Jewish, although a letter of Horace Walpole suggests that she later converted to some form of Christianity.

[6] In her Short Account (1760), Pye describes the homes and gardens of notable Twickenhamites including Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, Horace Walpole, Alexander Pope, and others.

[1][8] She observes critically that visits to Twickenham were 'commonly the only travels permitted to our sex, and the only way we have of becoming at all acquainted with the progress of the arts'.