Anne Plumptre

22 February 1760 - 20 October 1818

Standard Name: Plumptre, Anne

Birth Name: Anne Plumptre

Pseudonym: A Lady

AP , Romantic-era writer, a radical in politics, produced four novels (one of them a tour de force, an epistolary novel of great power and subtlety), much translation (particularly radical plays), travel writings (including political accounts of revolutionary France and of Ireland, the former a uniquely trenchant and sympathetic analysis), and a remarkable piece of medical history. As this survey suggests, she is a remarkably original as well as a progressive thinker.

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Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Cultural formation	Annabella Plumptre	AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and her sister Anne , she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism . Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix. viii and n4
death	Annabella Plumptre	AP died in her late seventies at Rennes in France, having outlived her sister Anne by twenty years. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990. 493
Family and Intimate relationships	Annabella Plumptre	AP enjoyed a close relationship with her elder sister Anne .
Family and Intimate relationships	C. E. Plumptre	The radical novelists and miscellaneous writers Anne and Annabella Plumptre were CEP 's collateral ancestors. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Family and Intimate relationships	Thomas Gray	Scholarly opinion still differs as to whether Gray's relationship with the young Swiss Charles Victor von Bonstetten was a great love or a sentimental friendship. It was first publicly revealed in letters in a volume...
Friends, Associates	Amelia Opie	AO 's friendship with Anne and Annabella Plumptre (daughters of Robert Plumptre , Prebend of Norwich, both of whom grew up to be writers) dated from their shared childhood. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix. xxvi, ix-x Her friendship with the...
Friends, Associates	Henrietta Maria Bowdler	One of HMB 's male friends was James Plumptre , younger brother of the writers Anne and Annabella (though the sisters' radical politics were diametrically opposed to those of the Bowdler family). By 1802 she...
Friends, Associates	Eliza Fenwick	Other more or less radical friends of EF included Thomas Holcroft , Anne Plumptre , Elizabeth Benger , Jane Porter , Henry Crabb Robinson , Charles and Mary Lamb , and their friend Sarah Stoddart
Friends, Associates	Ann Jebb	A particular sparring partner of AJ , who would attack her boldest reasoning, with his quaint and lively repartees, was the young William Paley , later an eminent theologian. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, pp. 597 - 604, 661. 598 She formed another close and...
Intertextuality and Influence	Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan	According to the Quarterly, Anne Plumptre , when touring Ireland a few years later, used O'Donnel as if it were a guidebook: as an introduction to society, a history of the country, and a...
Intertextuality and Influence	Joanna Baillie	Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between...
Intertextuality and Influence	Jemima Kindersley	The Critical Review gave JK a good notice: it called her a female voyager (a less usual character, it said, than female traveller), and noted that she communicates much information in an easy and agreeable...
Author summary	Annabella Plumptre	Romantic-era writer AP 's career shadowed that of her probably better-known sister Anne ; but after novels and translations she turned to domestic and children's literature instead of to travel and political writing.
Publishing	Annabella Plumptre	AP 's last publication, the only one co-authored with her sister , Tales of Wonder, of Humour, and of Sentiments, was advertised a ready for publication. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 87.2 (1817): 538
Publishing	Hannah Brand	It was printed at Norwich and sold through London publishers. The subscription list was impressive, including Anna Letitia Barbauld , John Brand (presumably HB 's brother) of Hemingston Hall in Suffolk, who took twenty copies...

Timeline

24 May 1799

Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened at Drury Lane . An adaptation of Kotzebue 's melodrama about Peru, Pizarro voiced the anti-French feelings (fore-runners of anti-Napoleonic feelings) disturbing the English people at this time.