Eleanor Sleath

ES was a popular novelist who published six titles, mostly with the Minerva Press , in little more than a decade, having begun just before the close of the eighteenth century. She sometimes intersperses poetry in her prose, which is supposedly the work of her characters. She is normally identified as a gothicist, largely because of Jane Austen 's treatment of her under that heading, but actually wrote didactic, satirical comedy as well.