Early Life
Born in Leominster, a small town in Herefordshire, England, she began playing chess in a correspondence tournament in 1872. The first mention of over the board competition is in August 1874 when Mary played in the second class at the Meeting of the Counties’ Chess Association, at Birmingham. After death of her father, Dr. Henry Rudge, she moved to Bristol where she started playing chess seriously.
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