Anne Plumptre
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, 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.
- BirthName: Anne Plumptre The name is sometimes spelled Plumtre. It was pronounced not plum-tree, but probably plum-ter.To increase the confusion caused by the similarity of her name to that of her sister Annabella, Anne is sometimes called Anna.
- Pseudonym: A Lady