A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Leapor, (Mary)
LEAPOR (MARY), Daughter of the Gardener of Judge Blencowe, at Marston, in Northamptonshire; born 1722.
She exhibited an early taste for poetry, which was at first checked by her parents, till they perceived the strong bent of her inclination; and the praise and encouragement of friends, inclined them to let her proceed. She appears to have been of a melancholy turn of mind probably from ill health, for she died young in 1746. Two volumes of poems, in which is an unfinished play, were published after her decease; in them she generally calls herself Myra.
See her Works.