Mary Ann Hedge (23 November 1776 – 23 January 1841) was an English writer of the Romantic era. She was born in Colchester, Essex, the youngest child and only daughter of Nathaniel Hedge (1735–1821), a jeweller and goldsmith, and Martha Gibson Hedge, a milliner. She had seven brothers, all of whom had died by 1811. Her mother died in 1816 and her father in 1821. Though her father left her property, legal complications reduced her inheritance and left her in financial difficulty for much of her later life, hardship that led her to apply to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance in 1827. She edited Memorials of Early Promise (1817), a collection of the juvenile poetry of her nephew Henry Thomas Hedge, and wrote domestic tales for children, historical summaries and compilations of British history, and exotic tales, among them The Koromantyn Slaves and Samboe (1823). She died on 23 January 1841 in Colchester, aged sixty-four.
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