Anne Burke

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AB published seven novels at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. A former governess left a widow with a son to support, she depended on her writing for an income. The play occasionally attributed to her is not hers.
  • BirthName: Anne Ustick
    This birth surname (a Cornish one) is highly speculative: a publisher made her a payment under it.

  • Married: Burke

Milestones

November 1787

AB 's second novel, the single-volume Ela; or, The Delusions of the Heart, A Tale, Founded on Facts, was highly successful, judging from the number of editions which followed the first.
The term Founded on Fact[s] in titles goes back at least to the mid eighteenth century, but was just entering a period of especial popularity.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Biography

Early Life

If the future AB was indeed born Anne Ustick , she may have been the baby of this name christened in Penzance in Cornwall on 20 September 1763.
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