The first novel attributed to Foster (as E.M.F.) was published in 1795 with the Minerva Press
, which also published (or republished) seven other novels linked to her between 1798 and 1801. The attribution...
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Walter Scott
was hunting for a copy of this book in about 1813, calling it a now-forgotten novel;
Garside, Peter. “Walter Scott and the ’Common’ Novel, 1808-1819”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
3
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critic Peter Garside suspects that it exercised some influence on his Guy Mannering. Garside
calls...
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, as the author of Cottage Sketches and other works, published another didactic work, Familiar Scenes, Histories, and Reflections.
This work is not mentioned in Garside
et al., The English Novel. The...
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's Talents Improved; or, The Philanthopist, now known not to have been her earliest published work, mentions on its title-page her authorship of Interesting Conversations. The Bodleian
's copy (apparently the first...