Ann Gomersall

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AG 's known publications comprise eighteenth-century novels of an unusually bourgeois tendency, and a long nineteenth-century poem. She wrote because she needed money. Bibliographer James Raven points out that some of her characters change their names in midstream, suggesting haste and inattention on either her part or her publisher's.
Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 14-117.
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Milestones

24 January 1750

Ann Richardson (later AG ) was born, probably at Portsmouth in Hampshire, where her parents lived.
The Feminist Companion has her birthdate as 1751, but this is mistaken.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Ann Gomersall, Ann Hawkshaw, J. S. Anna Liddiard, Plumptre Sisters, Mary Ridgway Stockdale, Medora Gordon Byron.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

1824

AG published, for the author, at Newport, Isle of Wight, her last work, Creation, A Poem.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

17 June 1835

AG died at Newport in the Isle of Wight, aged just past eighty.
Raven, James. Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800. Clarendon.
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Biography

Birth and Family

24 January 1750

Ann Richardson (later AG ) was born, probably at Portsmouth in Hampshire, where her parents lived.
The Feminist Companion has her birthdate as 1751, but this is mistaken.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Ann Gomersall, Ann Hawkshaw, J. S. Anna Liddiard, Plumptre Sisters, Mary Ridgway Stockdale, Medora Gordon Byron.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

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