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Ann Gomersall
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Standard Name: Gomersall, Ann
Birth Name: Ann
Married Name: Ann Gomersall
Pseudonym: A Female Inhabitant of Leeds in Yorkshire
's known publications comprise eighteenth-century novels of an unusually bourgeois tendency, and a long nineteenth-century poem. She wrote because she needed money. Bibliographer
points out that some of her characters change their names in midstream, suggesting haste and inattention on either her part or her publisher's.