Sarah Green

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Standard Name: Green, Sarah
Birth Name: Sarah
Married Name: Sarah Green
Pseudonym: The Author of Mental Improvement
Pseudonym: The Author of the Tankerville Family . . . .
Pseudonym: The Author of The Private History of the Court of England
Pseudonym: S. G****
Pseudonym: A Cockney
Besides a conduct book, a translation, and a pamphlet, SG wrote most fictional forms available to her: novels in several modes, stories, romances, and most notably mock-romances. She was one of the ten most prolific novelists of 1800-19
Green, Sarah. “Introduction: Romantic Reading and Writing: The Creation and Consumption of the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel; A Note on the Text”. Romance Readers and Romance Writers, edited by Christopher Goulding, Pickering and Chatto, p. ix - xxii, xxix-xxxi.
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(and not all of her nearly twenty titles are discussed here). Like Jane Austen , another mocker of the conventions of women's fiction, she was steeped in the writers she laughed at. Her opinions are strictly conservative; yet she ranges freely in subject-matter, creates lively and spirited heroines, and leavens the weight of moral judgement with the play of irony. Her career spanned the years 1790-1825, and she clearly took it seriously. She began putting her name on title-pages in about 1810.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Fictionalization Mary Robinson
On her deathbed MR regretted that most of her works had been composed in too much haste,
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen.
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and declared that if, against all expectation, she should survive, she would begin a new long work...
Publishing Elizabeth Gunning
Another edition followed from the Minerva Press in 1812, which is the only one listed by OCLC WorldCat.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Sarah Green alleged the following year that this was not original, but a translation...
Textual Features Harriet Downing
The poem's narrative enforces its moral. Mary, an orphan who later has to work as a governess, is prepared to sacrifice her lover, Pembroke, an earl's son, to her privileged cousin Lady Jane, who returns...
Textual Production Priscilla Wakefield
Complete sets of this work are now rare, but it seems that two volumes appeared in 1794 and a third in 1797. The title-page refers to PW 's authorship of Leisure Hours. Her new...

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Texts

Green, Sarah. “’Literary Retrospection’: By Way of Preface”. Novelists on Novels: From the Duchess of Newcastle to George Eliot, edited by R. Brimley Johnson, Noel Douglas, 1928, pp. 150-53.
Green, Sarah. A Letter to the Publisher of Brothers’s Prophecies. G. Riebau, 1795.
Green, Sarah. Charles Henley; or, The Fugitive Restored. Willian Lane, 1790.
Green, Sarah. Court Intrigue; or, The Victim of Constancy. Minerva Press for William Lane, 1799.
Green, Sarah. Gretna Green Marriages; or, The Nieces. A Novel. A. K. Newman, 1823.
Green, Sarah. “Introduction: Romantic Reading and Writing: The Creation and Consumption of the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel; A Note on the Text”. Romance Readers and Romance Writers, edited by Christopher Goulding, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. ix - xxii, xxix-xxxi.
Green, Sarah. Mental Improvement for a Young Lady, on her Entrance into the World, Addressed to a Favourite Niece. Minerva Press for William Lane, 1793.
Green, Sarah. Parents and Wives; or, Inconsistency and Mistakes. A Novel. A. K. Newman, 1825.
Lafontaine, August Heinrich Julius. Raphael; or, Peaceful Life. Translator Green, Sarah, J. Taylor, 1812.
Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers. Editor Goulding, Christopher, Pickering and Chatto, 2010.
Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel. Printed for T. Hookham, Junior, and E. T. Hookham, 1810.
Green, Sarah. Scotch Novel Reading. A. K. Newman and Co., 1824.
Green, Sarah. Tales of the Manor. B. Crosby and Co., 1809.
Green, Sarah. The Carthusian Friar; or, The Mysteries of Montanville. A Posthumous Romance. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1814.
Green, Sarah. The Festival of St Jago. A Spanish Romance. Minerva Press for A. K. Newman, 1810.
Green, Sarah. The Fugitive; or, Family Incidents. Black, Parry, and Co., 1815.
Green, Sarah. The Private History of the Court of England. Printed for the author, 1808.
Green, Sarah. The Reformist!!! A Serio-Comic Political Novel. Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1810.
Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. J. J. Stockdale, 1811.
Green, Sarah. Who is the Bridegroom? or, Nuptial Discoveries. A. K. Newman, 1822.