Mary Palmer

For other people with the same name, see Mary Palmer (born 1750) and Beth Palmer.

Mrs Mary Palmer, by her brother Sir Joshua Reynolds (d.1792). Collection of Plymouth City Council, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, PLYMG.CO.15
Stained glass in Palmer House, Great Torrington, showing arms of John Palmer[nb 1]

Mary Palmer (née Reynolds; 9 February 1716 – 27 May 1794) was a British author from Devon who wrote Devonshire Dialogue, once considered the "best piece of literature in the vernacular of Devon."[1] She was the mother of painter Theophila Gwatkin and sister of the artists Sir Joshua Reynolds and Frances Reynolds and of the pamphleteer Elizabeth Johnson.


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  1. ^ Labbe, Jacqueline M. "Palmer, Mary (1716–1794)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21205. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)