Mary Evelyn (poet)

Mary Evelyn (1 October 1665 – 14 March 1685) was a British poet.

[2] Born on 1 October 1665 in Surrey, England, Mary Evelyn was the eldest daughter of John Evelyn (1620 –1706), royal diarist, and his wife Mary Browne (1632–1709), English letter writer.

[1][3] Evelyn spent her childhood at her family home, Sayes Court, in Deptford, Kent.

She also read miscellaneous literary collections, annotations and meditations that she herself produced.

[4][1] The satirical poem, Mundus Muliebris: Or The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd, and Her Toilets Spread, is one of her known works published posthumously by her father in 1690.