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Anna Eliza Kempe (Bray), an English authoress, born in Surrey about 1800. She married in 1818 Mr. Charles Stothard, an artist and antiquary, whom she accompanied in artistic excursions, and who was accidentally killed in 1821; and about 1825 she became the wife of the Rev. Edward Atkyns Bray, vicar of Tavistock. Mrs. Bray's works (of which a uniform edition in 10 vols, appeared in 1844) consist chiefly of books of travel and historical romances, many of which have been translated into German. One of her most valuable productions is on the " Borders of the Tamar and Tavy," in a series of letters addressed to Southey. Mrs. Bray has written a memoir of her first husband, and in 1851 published that of his father, the eminent artist Thomas Stothard. She has also published a life of Handel (1857), and one of her second husband, with his " Poetical Remains " (1859). Her latest productions are: " The Good St. Louis and his Times" and "The Revolt of the'Protestants of the Ce-vennes" (1870); " Hartland Forest, a Legend of North Devon " (1871); " Joan of Arc, and the Times of Charles VII., King of France".
 
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