Sarah Green | |
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| Pen name | "a lady"; S.G.; Mrs S.G. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Years active | 1790–1825 |
| Notable work | Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel (1810) |
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Sarah Green (fl. 1790 – 1825) was an Irish-English author, one of the ten most prolific novelists of the first two decades of the nineteenth century. [1]
Green was probably born in Ireland then later moved to London. Very little is known of her aside from what has been pieced together of her publishing history. She produced works in an array of genres: novels, tales, romances, and, notably, like Jane Austen, mock-romances. [1] She also wrote at least one religious work, as well as conduct literature, a translation, and editing work. Eight of her works were published with the popular Minerva Press by William Lane or his successor, Anthony Newman. "It is ironic," one commentator has written, that her moral tract, Mental improvement for a young lady (1793) "condemns all novels save those of Fanny Burney." [2] Later works, however, engage with a range of other writers: in Scotch Novel Reading (1824), in addition to Burney, Green variously refers to or evokes Lord Byron, Charlotte Dacre, Charlotte Lennox, Sydney Owenson, Ann Radcliffe, and Walter Scott. [3] Her Private History of the Court of England (privately printed, 1808) is a fictionalized account of the life of writer Mary Robinson. [1]
Initially Green published anonymously, but after 1810 she began to publish under her own name.
She is one of the "lost" women writers listed by Dale Spender in Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen .
Frances Burney, also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post as "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen. In 1793, aged 41, she married a French exile, General Alexandre d'Arblay. After a long writing career and wartime travels that stranded her in France for over a decade, she settled in Bath, England, where she died on 6 January 1840. The first of her four novels, Evelina (1778), was the most successful and remains her most highly regarded. Most of her plays were not performed in her lifetime. She wrote a memoir of her father (1832) and many letters and journals that have been gradually published since 1889.
Catharine Selden was an Irish writer of Gothic novels in the early 19th century.
Eliza Bromley was an English novelist and translator.
Martha Harley was the successful author of six Gothic novels.
Elizabeth Thomas [née Wolferstan] (1771–1855), novelist and poet, is an ambiguous figure. Details of her early life are missing, and her authorship of some of the works attributed to her has been contested due to the use of pseudonyms.
Selina Davenport was an English novelist, briefly married to the miscellanist and biographer Richard Alfred Davenport. Her eleven published novels have been recently described as "effective if stereotyped".
Sarah Harriet Burney was an English novelist, the daughter of musicologist and composer Charles Burney, and half-sister of the novelist and diarist Frances Burney. She had some intermittent success with her novels.
Emma Parker was an Anglo-Welsh novelist of whom very little is known, although her work was generally well-reviewed during her lifetime. Her epistolary novel Self-Deception explores the cultural and religious differences between the English and the French.
James Norris Brewer, was an English topographer and novelist.
Elizabeth Strutt, also or previously known as Elizabeth Byron, was an English writer and traveller. She was the wife of Jacob George Strutt and mother of Arthur John Strutt, and an acquaintance and critic of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, whom she describes as having written "two of the most absurd and the most unpleasing sonnets in the English language". In the 1820s and 1830s she travelled in France and Switzerland, living for a time at Lausanne, and later with her husband and son moved to Rome.
Mary Ann Hanway was an eighteenth-century travel writer and novelist. She has been proposed as the anonymous author of Journey to the Highlands of Scotland (1777).
Maria Elizabeth Robinson was an author and editor. Her mother was the celebrated writer Mary Robinson, and Robinson edited and saw her unpublished works through to publication after her death.
Amelia Beauclerc was a British Gothic novelist.
Sophia Fortnum was a British Gothic novelist, and poet.
Mary Charlton, Gothic novelist and translator, was a "leading light" at the Minerva Press.
Anna Maria Mackenzie was a prolific author of popular novels active during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She was closely associated with the Minerva Press.
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Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen (1986), by Dale Spender, is a foundational study for the reclamation project central to feminist literary studies in English in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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