Frances Parker, Countess of Morley

Despite the success of these editing ventures, when a generation later BBBD 's grand-daughter Lady Grey thought of publishing a tale and using her grandmother's name as her mother had done, Dacre said that her...

BBBD was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley

Maria Edgeworth read this novel on its appearance (firmly preferring it to Jane Austen's Emma), and two years later mentioned it as the title defining FJ 's achievement. Published almost simultaneously with Austen