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Maria Susanna Cooper
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Standard Name: Cooper, Maria Susanna
Birth Name: Maria Susanna Bransby
Pseudonym: The Author of the Exemplary Mother
Pseudonym: The Authoress of the Exemplary Mother
began as a writer of children's books which have not been identified. Between 1762 and 1775 she published four epistolary novels of a didactic and conservative cast (or five, if a radical revision is regarded as a separate text). Three of these, including the revision, make a triptych dealing with the roles of daughters, wives, and mothers. To these she added a published narrative poem, and her son posthumously issued another novel and a volume of tales (at least some reprinted from magazines).
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Texts
Cooper, Maria Susanna. Jane Shore. Becket, 1776.
Cooper, Maria Susanna. Letters Between Emilia and Harriet. R. and J. Dodsley, 1762.
Cooper, Maria Susanna. Moral Tales. Becket, 1810.
Cooper, Maria Susanna. The Daughter. J. Dodsley, 1775.
Cooper, Maria Susanna. The Exemplary Mother. T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1769.
Cooper, Maria Susanna. The History of Fanny Meadows. Becket, 1775.
Cooper, Maria Susanna. The School for Wives. R. and J. Dodsley, 1763.
Cooper, Maria Susanna. The Wife, or Caroline Herbert. Becket and Porter, 1813.