Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille; 26 September 1846 – 12 October 1918), was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor.

The family moved to Australia in 1853 and lived for some years at Mordialloc, near Melbourne, where Mary attended Miss Harper's school.

Her husband died in 1884 through over-work and exposure during a drought of that year, when their losses of stock were so great that Mrs Foott was faced with selling her interest in the property and moving to Toowoomba, Queensland.

In the same year she published a first volume, Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems, and began to do journalistic work for The Queenslander and the Brisbane Courier.

[3] She was survived by her other son, Brigadier-General Cecil Henry Foott, CB, CMG, who was born on 16 January 1876, educated as an engineer, and served with distinction in the Great War, being mentioned six times in dispatches.