Joan Percy

FJ 's father died, blind and infirm. She and her sister Maria began an orphaned existence of staying with relations (some of them unwelcoming) for a year and four months before they were offered a...

The Critical Review did this novel proud, first listing it, then praising it warmly for its superior moral tendency.Sarah, Lady Davy , told Sarah Ponsonby

Joan Percy bolsters her argument against AL 's authorship of the novels now attributed to Frances Jacson by quoting some of the most stilted remarks from this one—Unhand me this instant and let me...

This novel was advertised early the next year. As far back as 1945, Lewis's biographer Eliza Pearl Shippen doubted the attribution to her of this novel. The arguments for FJ 's authorship...

Again, many reference sources attribute this novel to Alethea Lewis , though Lewis's biographer Shippen doubted the ascription. The work was ascribed to Jacson firstly by Maria Edgeworth in 1818, and later by Joan Percy

After a peripatetic year staying with this and that family of relations—at their old home of Bebington, then Langold in Nottinghamshire, and Firbeck (one of several places of that name), they were relieved...