Mary Anne Burges (6 December 1763 – 10 August 1813) was a Scottish writer who wrote a successful sequel to The Pilgrim's Progress.
Her father had distinguished himself at the Battle of Culloden by capturing the standard of Charles Edward Stewart and was later deputy paymaster in Gibraltar;[1] he was in charge of the customs when she was born.
[3] She is said to have been a major contributor to Deluc's last book[1] and she sketched her friend Elizabeth Simcoe, as well as illustrating her own botanical descriptions.
She is known for anonymously publishing a sequel to John Bunyan's renowned allegorical work The Pilgrim's Progress.
The book went through seven editions in English, two in Ireland and three in America by 1802, and established Burges as a professional and independent woman.