BRUNTON, MARY (1778-1818), Scottish novelist, was born Nov. I 1778, in the island of Varra, Orkney, and died at Edinburgh Dec. I0 1818. She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Balfour of Elwick. At the age of 20 she married Alexander Brun ton, minister of Bolton in Haddingtonshire and afterwards pro fessor of oriental languages at Edinburgh. She was the author of two novels, popular in their day, Self-control (181o) and Dis cipline (1814; 1832 edition with memoir) ; and of a posthumous fragment, Emmeline (1819).