Berry, Mary (1763-1852)

English writer. She collected and edited the Works of Horace Walpole (1798) and published England and France: A Comparative View of the Social Condition of both Countries (1844). Also of interest are her Journals and Correspondence (1866).

She was born in Kirkbridge, Yorkshire. In 1788 she and her younger sister Agnes met the writer Horace Walpole, who left them in his will £4,000 each and some property at Little Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London.