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.
Black-and-white drawing of Anne Plumptre, circa 1790. Her image is framed by an oval and she wears a dress with a frilly collar and has a rounded fabric cap through which her curls peek out.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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 et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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...
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.
493
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, p. vii - xxix.
viii and n4

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