Arabella Plantin (born 1700) was an eighteenth-century British novelist. She was the author of ''The Ingrateful; or, The Just Revenge)'' (1727) and ''Love Led Astray; or, The Mutual Inconstancy'' (1731). ''The Ingrateful'' is a story of an Italian woman who murders her husband, after he has spent her fortune, and ''Love Led Astray'' is a

pastoral A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music (pastorale) that depicts ...

tale of crossed lovers. The

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Bridget G. MacCarthy Bridget G. MacCarthy (7 June 1904 – April 1993) was an Irish academic and writer. She has been described as one of the most important female cultural and literary historians. Biography Bridget Gerard MacCarthy was born to Jeremiah MacCarthy a ...

in her 1944 study, ''The Female Pen'', described ''Love Led Astray'' as "an absurd travesty of the pastoral tradition", with critic Brian Corman describing Plantin as a writer of "outmoded and highly artificial romances."

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