Subscribers included members of the Fitzwilliam family (that of Pearson's patron
),
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing.
plus several from the wider literary world: Elizabeth Carter
, her nephew Montagu Pennington
, and the obscure novelist Mrs Carver
, who...
Timeline
By June 1797
The unidentified Mrs Carver
published one of her two novels this year with the Minerva Press
: Elizabeth. The other is the distinctly gruesome The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.
