A. Woodfin

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Standard Name: Woodfin, A.
Birth Name: A. Woodfin
Pseudonym: A Lady
Pseudonym: The Author of Memoirs of a Scotch Family
Used Form: Mrs A. Woodfin
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.
Title-page of A. Woodfin's "The Auction: A Modern Novel", vol. 1, anonymous 1760.

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Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
PG chose anonymity for what seems to be her next novel, the epistolary History of Eliza Musgrove.
Some reference sources attribute this work to Mrs A. Woodfin , but PG told the Royal Literary Fund

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Texts

Woodfin, A. Northern Memoirs. F. Noble and J. Noble, 1756, 2 vols.
Woodfin, A. The Auction. T. Lowndes, 1760, 2 vols.
Woodfin, A. The Auction. T. Lowndes, 1770, 2 vols.
Woodfin, A. The Discovery. T. Lowndes, 1764, 2 vols.
Woodfin, A. The History of Miss Harriot Watson. T. Lowndes, 1762, 2 vols.
Woodfin, A. The History of Miss Sally Sable. F. Noble and J. Noble, 1757, 2 vols.