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Elizabeth Meeke
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Standard Name: Meeke, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Allen
Nickname: Bessy
Married Name: Elizabeth Meeke
Indexed Name: Mrs Meeke
Indexed Name: Mrs Meek
Self-constructed Name: Mrs Bruce
Pseudonym: Gabrielli
Pseudonym: The Author of The Mysterious Wife
Pseudonym: The Author of The Sicilian
, who was not correctly identified until 2013, was unusually prolific among novelists (twenty-six titles), children's writers, and translators of the Romantic period. (She also compiled an anthology for children.) She issued through the
an output of fiction which exceeds that of any other novelist of the time except
and
. She used her own name, a regular pseudonym, and occasional anonymity. She is shameless in her use of improbable plot twists, but highly intelligent in authorial comments.
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Texts
Meeke, Elizabeth. The Nine Days’ Wonder. Lane, Newman, 1804, 3 vols.
Meeke, Elizabeth. The Old Wife and Young Husband. Lane, Newman, 1804, 3 vols.
Meeke, Elizabeth. The Parent’s Offering to a Good Child. A. K. Newman, 1825.
Meeke, Elizabeth. The Sicilian. William Lane, 1798, 4 vols.
Meeke, Elizabeth. The Spanish Campaign. A. K. Newman, 1814, 3 vols.
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise. The Unpublished Correspondence of Madame du Deffand. Translator Meeke, Elizabeth, A. K. Newman, 1810, 2 vols.
Meeke, Elizabeth. The Veiled Protectress. A. K. Newman, 1819, 5 vols.
Meeke, Elizabeth. The Wonder of the Village. Lane, Newman, 1805, 3 vols.
Meeke, Elizabeth. What Shall Be, Shall Be. A. K. Newman, 1823, 4 vols.
Meeke, Elizabeth. Which is the Man?. William Lane, 1801, 4 vols.