Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh

Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh (1656–1710), born Mary Lee at Winkleigh in Devon, married Sir George Chudleigh in 1685 and spent her life largely at Ashton, near Exeter. She was among the earliest English women to write publicly in defence of her sex, notably in her verse satire The Ladies' Defence (1701).

Her Poems on Several Occasions appeared in 1703 and her Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse in 1710, the year she died.