Memoirs and Letters of Richard & Elizabeth Shackleton. Late of Ballitore, Ireland, Compiled by their Daughter, Mary Leadbeater, Including a Concise Biographical Sketch, and Some Letters, of her Grandfather, Abraham Shackleton. New Edition. London: Gilpin, 1849. Pp, vi, 272. Ex library stamp to title page, otherwise a good copy in original publisher’s cloth.

Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826) was born in Ballitore, County Kildare. She wrote poetry, stories and memoirs. She was the daughter of Richard Shackleton and Elizabeth Carleton who were both Quakers. 

Among her family’s descendants was the explorer, Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) a member of Scott’s Antartic expedition, and leader of his own expedition in 1907.