Martha Peckard

[1] In 1760, her husband was appointed rector of Fletton, Huntingdonshire and she lived in the rectory there until her death.

[2] “Ode to Cynthia” appears in Dodsley’s collection, Richardson’s Correspondence, and Egerton Brydges's Censura Literaria.

“Ode to Spring”, also in Dodsley, was called by Thomas Edwards “a charming piece” which must do her honour with all judges.

[3] With her husband, she also composed an elegy for a tombstone in Fletton churchyard;[4] the epitaph for the parish clerk appears in The Gentleman's Magazine (2, 1789).

[3] It has been suggested that she composed the inscription of a memorial to Anna Maria Vassa (died 1797), eldest daughter of the former slave and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, at St Andrew's Church, Chesterton.