A. Woodfin

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AW 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
    AW '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 Mrs Woodfin, this form was still quite usual for unmarried women at the time.

  • Pseudonyms: A Lady; The Author of Memoirs of a Scotch Family
Title-page of A. Woodfin's "The Auction: A Modern Novel", vol. 1, anonymous 1760.

Milestones

By December 1756

AW , writing as a Lady, published her first known work, Northern Memoirs: or, the History of a Scotch Family, in two volumes, with the Noble brothers, who ran a circulating library as well as a publishing business.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Biography

An Obscure Life

The date of AW '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.

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