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Novels

*''The Misanthrope Father, or The Guarded Secret'' (1807) *''The Castle of Arragon: or, The Banditti of the Forest'' (1809
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*''The Caledonian Bandit or The Heir of Duncaethal'' (1811
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*''Barozzi, or The Venetian Sorceress'' (1815)
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References

English women novelists Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown English stage actresses 19th-century English women writers 19th-century English novelists {{england-writer-stub