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Frances Jacson
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Standard Name: Jacson, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Margaretta Jacson
Pseudonym: The Author of Plain Sense
Pseudonym: A Person without a Name
Pseudonym: The Author of Rhoda
is now accepted as the author of five late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels, published anonymously or with allusion to former titles in the chain, which were formerly attributed to
. She kept a diary throughout her middle and old age, and also published a single religious work. Her fiction, though it remains reliant on well-tried plot devices, is notable for its perceptive exploration of her heroines' minds. She shows a strong vein of satire, and freely presents bad parents and bad marriages.
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Texts
Jacson, Frances. Disobedience. Minerva Press, 1797, 4 vols.
Jacson, Frances. Isabella. Henry Colburn, 1822, 3 vols.
Jacson, Frances. Plain Sense. Minerva Press, 1795, 3 vols.
Jacson, Frances. Rhoda. Henry Colburn, 1815, 3 vols.
Jacson, Frances. Things By Their Right Names. George Robinson, 1812, 2 vols.