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Mary "Polly" Norris Dickinson (July 17, 1740, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – July 23, 1803, in Wilmington, Delaware) was an early American land and estate owner and manager.
Hace 5 días · Dickinson tuvo una educación de primer nivel. Inicialmente fue enseñado por tutores, estudió derecho en Filadelfia y completó sus estudios legales en Inglaterra en el distinguido Templo de Londres. Regresó a Filadelfia para ejercer la abogacía y se casó con un miembro de la poderosa familia cuáquera de Mary Norris en 1770.
Learn about Mary Norris Dickinson, an early American land and estate owner and manager, and the wife of Founding Father John Dickinson. She owned one of the largest libraries in the colonies and participated in political events of the time.
9 letters written to John Dickinson, and one written to Mary Dickinson, from 1783 May 16 to December 29. Thomas Fisher writes to Mary Norris Dickinson regarding Joshua Logan's estate and his brother Samuel Fisher's plans to travel to England.
Mary Norris Dickinson and Hannah Harrison Thomson were granddaughters of Isaac Norris I, one of Pennsylvania's leading Quaker merchant-politicians of the early eighteenth century, and Mary Norris was one of the richest heiresses in Pennsylvania when she married John Dickinson in 1770.
Mary Norris Dickinson was the wife of John Dickinson, the founder of Dickinson College. The archives collection includes letters from John Dickinson to Benjamin Rush and a genealogy book by Lena Dickinson Outlaw.
31 de may. de 2024 · The Comma Queen: Mary Norris Durante más de dos décadas fue correctora de estilo de la prestigiosa revista The New Yorker, lo que le valió el título de Reina de las Comas. Autora de un libro sobre su pasión por la cultura griega, nos habla de su meticuloso trabajo con la lengua inglesa.
