Frederic and Caroline, or the Fitzmorris Family, 1800, another novel in two volumes, tells the story of the Fitzmorris family (with two generations of Frederics and Carolines). Its attribution gives it to the author of Rebecca, Judith, and Miriam, and like Emily of Lucerne it is dedicated to the Princess of Wales. In an interesting Preface the author apologizes for using quotations without attribution, but she implies that books are inaccessible to her: she says she is fixed in a spot where literary amusement must be purchased, and when, she enquires, did the purse of an Authoress overflow with cash? It would be a mistake to read too much into this about Foster's life, but it is interesting that in a year when she published four books, she constructs a narrator who complains of the low proceeds that writing brings. The novel also has a scene set in the Minerva Circulating Library . The novel opens in 1798, with the description of a mysterious and melancholy man known as Sandford who has purchased an estate in Cornwall. He befriends the local rector, Mr Godfrey, and his two children, Emma and Frederic. The Godfreys turn out to be the family of his sister, who had been disowned for marrying beneath her and who has long since died. Godfrey and Sandford are delighted to find each other, and Sandford undertakes to offer support for Godfrey's two children. Sandford's melancholy is revealed to be the result of a disastrous marriage to a wife who eloped with another man. She took their baby but left behind two older daughters, who then died of smallpox. His wife, long since repentant, has raised their daughter Caroline to be virtuous, and Frederic Godfrey has fallen in love with her, without of course knowing their connection. Caroline's mother insists that Caroline renounce Frederic until her death, and their separation is further complicated by the unscrupluous behavior of Caroline's other suitor, Mr Mortimer, who lies and bribes servants to effect the estrangement of the lovers.