Eliza Bromley (née Eliza Nugent) ( fl. 1784 - 1803) was an

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. Mrs Bromley was the widow of an army officer. She is one of the "lost" women writers listed in

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's '' Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen'' (1986).

Works

*''Laura and Augustus: an Authentic Story'' (1784) *''Ivey Castle: a novel: containing interesting memoirs of two ladies, late nuns in a French abolished convent'' (1794) *''The Cave of Cosenza: a Romance of the Eighteenth Century'' (1803) (translated from an Italian original) *''The History of Sir Charls Bentinck, Bart. And Louisa Cavendish. A novel, in three volumes. By the author of Laura and Augustus''. (1788)

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