Susannah Gunning

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Standard Name: Gunning, Susannah
Birth Name: Susannah Minifie
Married Name: Susannah Gunning
Pseudonym: Mrs Gunning
Pseudonym: A Lady
SG began in the mid eighteenth century, at an early age, as a mediocre sentimental novelist: snobbish, stylistically over-elaborate, centring her plots on wished-for ascent to the nobility, and addressing the reader with girlish coyness. Her later work, produced after a silence of years, is more confident, relaxed, and inventive. She also wrote poetry. Her coded writings about her tortured family relationships, though marred by over-writing, provide a fascinating picture of the conflicts resulting from upward mobility in a tightly stratified society.

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Textual Production Margaret Minifie
MM published another epistolary novel, The Count de Poland, with her name and the explanation, one of the authors of Lady Frances and Lady Caroline S——.
The English Novel 1770-1829 notes that this...
Textual Production Margaret Minifie
This novel, like its predecessor, has been generally attributed to Susannah, later Gunning . Copies are far more plentiful than those of Barford Abbey.
Textual Production Margaret Minifie
Though she did not set her name to this novel, her listing of an earlier title which did name her leaves her authorship in no doubt. Nevertheless, as The English Novel 1770-1829 notes, this too...
Textual Production Margaret Minifie
Bibliographers Peter Garside et al. suggest that this novel may be hers or that of her recently-deceased sister Susannah Gunning .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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