Annabella "Bell" Plumptre (1769–1838) was a British writer and translator. She sometimes collaborated with her sister

Anne Plumptre Anne Plumptre (1760–1818) was an English writer and translator sometimes collaborating with her sister Annabella Plumptre. Life Anne was born in Norwich. She and her sister, Annabella ellPlumptre were daughters of Robert Plumptre, became a ...

Life

Plumptre was born in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

in 1769. Her father was Robert Plumptre and her siblings were the cleric

James Plumptre James Plumptre (1771–1832) was an English clergyman and dramatist. Life James Plumptre was born at Cambridge on 2 October 1771, the third son of Robert Plumptre, President of Queens' College, Cambridge, by his wife, Anne Newcome.''ODNB'' The ...

and fellow writer

. She and Anna were given a good education which included foreign languages. They wrote as part of what became known as the "Enfield Group". A friend was the writer

Amelia Opie Amelia Opie (née Alderson; 12 November 1769 – 2 December 1853) was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828. Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich, England. Hers was the first of 187,000 nam ...

(then Alderson) who wrote a play, ''Adelaide'', that they both acted in when it was performed privately. Their brother James wrote the prologue. The two sisters began to translate plays from German including those of the playwright August von Kotzebue. Plumptre was known for her writings associated with the politics of food production. She published work between 1794 and 1818. In 1810 she published a cookery book to which was associated her thoughts on food, diet and politics. She argued against the use of food production as an economic tool.‘An Antidote to Modern Errors’: Annabella Plumptre and the health of the nation
Helen Clark, May 2009, Sheffield Hallam, retrieved May 2015

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