Marie Blaze de Bury

Her parent or guardian was an army officer named William Stuart,[1] but one rumour was that her father was the transforming statesman Lord Henry Brougham.

She used the nom de plume of the English-sounding name of "Arthur Dudley" and her work nearly always contained a political aspect.

[2] She wrote Mildred Vernon; a tale of Parisian life in the last days of the monarchy under the pseudonym Hamilton Murray in 1848.

[6] Her works include Travel to Austria, Hungary and Germany During the Events of 1848 and 1849 which was published in 1851.

[1] When she died in 1894 an obituary published in The Times noted her skills which set her apart from other talented women.