Jessie Fothergill
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During her relatively short career in the later nineteenth century,
produced fourteen novels, many of which ran to several editions and appeared in Indian and Australian journals, as well as many essays for periodicals at home. Although she is often classified as a regional writer, her fiction explores and depicts a self-consciously modern world where issues of class, religion, gender, sexuality, and race are scrutinized and debated. Her work was regularly compared by her contemporaries with that of
and
. It is now the subject of increased attention and re-evaluation.
Jane Crisp refers to
's twelve full-length novels and two shorter tales. Others, including Helen Debenham, do not distinguish between the two genres, but count fourteen novels.
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