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Darwin Correspondence Project

Mary Frere

1781–1864

Wife of William Frere. Noted for her beautiful voice. Established a salon in the Master’s Lodge, Downing College, Cambridge, and arranged private theatricals in the College hall.

Source

Modern English biography.

Bibliography

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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