Literary Circle

Several women were in Anne's circle of correspondence. Nancy Cho describes a coterie of literary females that included

• Mary Steele (Silvia 1753-1813), her niece, the author of Danebury or The Power of Friendship: A Tale with Two Odes (1779)
• Mary Scott (Myra 1751-1793), author of the proto-feminist work The Female Advocate; A Poem occasioned by reading Mr Duncombe's Feminead (1774)
• Hannah More (1745-1833), the well known evangelical author, who visited the Steeles at least once

We could perhaps add Anne's second cousin Jane Attwater (1753–1844) in Bodenham near Salisbury.