Karen Morton

As part of her campaign to raise subscribers for Lucy: A Novel, which she expected to publish in three weeks, EP addressed a detailed and revealing letter about her circumstances to the politician William Windham

EP dedicated her gothic novel Anecdotes of Two Well-Known Families to the First Female Pen in England (possibly Frances Burney ), and claimed that the book was Written by a Descendant.

EP 's lack of money meant that she was constantly moving house, to escape debts or in pursuit of cheaper lodgings. She often gives her addresses in the preliminary pages of her novels. When she...