Deborah McLeod

AP was born, probably at Cambridge, where her father was President of Queen's College and where she was baptised on this date. She was the fourth of ten children and the third daughter.

The New London Review was fairly kind: having somewhat condescendingly noted that the author might have sacrificed propriety to potential profits in her apt catering to these ghost-loving times, it added: The story is interesting...

The Critical Review was unimpressed, classifying this as an inadequate imitation of Radcliffe , incorporating the apparently obligatory ingredients of cruel German counts, each with two wives—old castles—private doors—sliding panels—banditti—assassins—ghosts &c. This mixture, it...

An advertisement listed the novel as forthcoming on 30 June. The next year saw both a Dublin edition and a Minerva Press one (which bibliographer Deborah McLeod knew only from an advertisement, with the author...

This novel predates The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson (later Morgan) , which is generally thought of as the earliest novel of romantic Irish nationalism, by nearly a decade. Bibliographer Deborah McLeod notes that...

The title of this work appears to have been particularly unstable. Scholar Dorothy Blakey saw it advertised in this form, which appears in a Critical Review list (Blakey omits the second the). The English...

RMR published through the Minerva Press , with her name, a historical novel entitled Trecothick Bower; or, The Lady of the West Country. A Tale; the title-page said 1814.