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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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, Vol.
7
, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
598
She formed another close and...
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...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
The sisters Anne and Bell Plumptre both acted in it as well. Another performance followed two days later.
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...
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.
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.
317
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
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

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.