Mary Barker: Senhora Small Fry

"SENHORA SMALL FRY": THE NOTES

To poet and essayist Robert Southey, who met her on a Portuguese holiday in 1800, she was "The Senhora".
To Lord Byron (though he never knew it) she was "One of the Small Fry of the Lakes".
To the Wordsworths, she was simply "Miss B".

These pages present background notes to the book "Senhora Small Fry: Mary Barker and the Lake Poets" by David Bradbury (ISBN 1-904367-18-6)
Notes for pages 1-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
41-63

PLUS: A summary, with quotations, of her slightly over-enthusiastic novel "A Welsh Story" (1798)