A. Woodfin
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began publishing her six novels just after the middle of the eighteenth century. She favoured the briefer, two-volume format and innovative structures and plots. Her final novel closes with verse. At least two of her novels allow a self-reliant older female figure, who has achieved her own character-development, to steal the limelight from the nubile heroine.
- BirthName: A. Woodfin Mrs Woodfin, this form was still quite usual for unmarried women at the time.'s full Christian name is not known. Nor is it known if Woodfin was her birth name or married name. Though she gives her name as
- Pseudonyms: A Lady; The Author of Memoirs of a Scotch Family
Biography
An Obscure Life
The date of
's birth is not known. If she was at least twenty when her first novel appeared, then she must have been born by 1736.The International Genealogical Index yields no records that seem promising.