Anne Plumptre

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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.

Connections

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Travel Amelia Opie
They travelled with Anne Plumptre and stayed with Helen Maria Williams . They went as far as Naples.
Textual Production Amelia Opie
These volumes sold for five shillings.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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One of the few surviving copies belonged to Anne Plumptre .
National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield.
It has at last been reprinted, with The Father and Daughter.
Textual Production Amelia Opie
The sisters Anne and Bell Plumptre both acted in it as well. Another performance followed two days later.
Textual Features Helen Maria Williams
This poem incorporates the result of serious historical reading, including Anne Plumptre 's translation of Kotzebue 's Die Spanier in Peru and William Robertson's History of America, 1777.
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
127
Williams's Aztecs are noble...
Textual Features Elizabeth Inchbald
Like the original, EI 's version is set in Germany. But unlike Anne Plumptre 's version (which appeared earlier the same year) it is a total transformation of Kotzebue. The original story features a...
Residence Annabella Plumptre
AP and her sister Anne were at 56 Wells Street, London, either living there or visiting.
Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen.
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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...
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.
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...
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, 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

Timeline

24 May 1799: Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened...

Writing climate item

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.

Texts

Bertrand, Jean-Baptiste. A Historical Relation of the Plague at Marseilles in the year 1720. Translator Plumptre, Anne, J. Mawman, 1805.
Plumptre, Anne. A Narrative of Three Years’ Residence in France. J. Mawman, 1810.
Plumptre, Anne. Antoinette. Minerva Press, 1796.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
Matthisson, Frederick, and Thomas Gray. Letters Written from Various Parts of the Continent. Translator Plumptre, Anne, T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799.
Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn, 1817.
Musaeus, Johann Carl August. Physiognomical Travels, Preceded by a Physiognomical Journal. Translator Plumptre, Anne, T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800.
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von. Sketch of the Life and Literary Career of Augustus von Kotzebue. Translator Plumptre, Anne, H. D. Symonds, 1800.
Plumptre, Anne. Something New. Longman and Rees, 1801.
Plumptre, Anne. Something New. Editor McLeod, Deborah, Broadview, 1996.
Plumptre, Anne, and Annabella Plumptre. Tales of Wonder, of Humour, and of Sentiment. Henry Colburn, 1818.
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von. The Count of Burgundy. Translator Plumptre, Anne, R. Phillips, 1798.
Plumptre, Anne. The History of Myself and My Friend. Henry Colburn, 1813.
Plumptre, Anne. The Rector’s Son. Lee and Hurst, 1798.
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von. The Spaniards in Peru. Translator Plumptre, Anne, R. Phillips, 1799.
Lichtenstein, Martin Heinrich Carl. Travels in Southern Africa, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806. Translator Plumptre, Anne, Henry Colburn, 1815.
Pouqueville, François Charles Hugues Laurent. Travels in the Morea, Albania, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire. Translator Plumptre, Anne, Henry Colburn, 1813.