Earlier versions of this Orlando entry argued correctly that S. Pearson the novelist was the same person as S. Pearson the poet, but wrongly that her given name was Susanna: in fact this name seems...
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Frances Sheridan
The Critical Review expressed its dislike of the oriental-tale form: We must be of opinion that she has thrown away many valuable materials, both ornamental and useful, upon an ill-contrived, ill-judged fabric. It was perhaps...
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Watkins, John, and Frederic Shoberl. A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland. H. Colburn, 1816.
