POWNALL, Mary Ann
(1751–1796)> ACTRESS · SINGER · COMPOSER
POWNALL, Mary Ann (nee Wrighten) English actress, singer and composer. February, 1751; August 11, 1796. She was well known as a ballad singer and actress before going to America in 1792, where she became a member of the Old American Company and organized and participated in a number of concerts in Boston and other cities. Her song Jemmy in the Glen was one of the first songs published by a woman in America. She died of shock eight days after the elopement of her daughter with a pantomimist…