Eliza Parsons
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Standard Name: Parsons, Eliza
Birth Name: Eliza Philp
Married Name: Eliza Parsons
Pseudonym: A Descendant
Writing for money in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,
produced about twenty novels comprising (she said) sixty-five volumes, which may have been reckoned to include her play and six volumes of novels translated from French. All her fiction is didactic, and the works which are not sentimental are gothic. She began as a heavy-handed stylist and never ceased to over-write, but she was skilled in hooking and holding readers. She was popular with the public though she had to be content with faint praise from reviewers, who often commented on her defective grammar.Timeline
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Texts
Parsons, Eliza. An Old Friend with a New Face. T. N. Longman, 1797, 3 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. Anecdotes of Two Well-Known Families. T. N. Longman, 1798, 3 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. Ellen and Julia. William Lane, 1793, 2 vols.
Varma, Devendra P., and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. Castle of Wolfenbach, Folio Press, 1968, p. xiii - xxiv.
Varma, Devendra P., and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Mysterious Warning, Folio Press, 1968, p. vii - xvi.
Hoeveler, Diane Long, and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Castle of Wolfenbach, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Diane Long Hoeveler, Valancourt Books, 2007, p. vii - xvii.
Parsons, Eliza, and William Windham. Letter to William Windham, 14 May [1794]. http://BL Add M3 37914.
Parsons, Eliza. Lucy. William Lane, 1794, 3 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. Murray House. P. Norbury, 1804, 3 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Castle of Wolfenbach. William Lane, 1793, 2 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Castle of Wolfenbach. Editor Hoeveler, Diane Long, Valancourt Books, 2007.
Parsons, Eliza. The Convict. P. Norbury, 1807, 4 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Errors of Education. William Lane, 1791, 3 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Girl of the Mountains. William Lane, 1797, 4 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The History of Miss Meredith. Hookham, 1790, 2 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Intrigues of a Morning. William Lane, 1792.
Parsons, Eliza. The Miser and His Family. P. Norbury, 1800, 4 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Mysterious Visit. P. Norbury, 1802, http://4 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Mysterious Warning. William Lane, 1796, 4 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Peasant of Ardenne Forest. P. Norbury, 1801, 4 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Valley of St. Gothard. P. Norbury, 1799, 3 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. The Voluntary Exile. William Lane, 1795, 5 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. Woman As She Should Be. William Lane, 1793, 4 vols.
Parsons, Eliza. Women As They Are. William Lane, 1796, 4 vols.