Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823) was a French-into-English translator and a novelist.
Gunning was the daughter of
John Gunning and writer
Susannah Gunning. Miss Gunning married Major James Plunkett of Kinnaird,
Co. Roscommon, Ireland in 1803, and they had a son James "Gunning" Plunkett.
She died after a long illness on 20 July 1823, at
Long Melford
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,
Suffolk
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. Their other children included George Argyle Plunkett, who became a physician in
Brooklyn
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, New York.
Works
She published several translations from the French, including:
*''Memoirs of Madame de Barneveldt,'' 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1795. Prefixed to the second edition, in 1796, is a charming portrait of Miss Gunning by the younger Saunders, engraved by
Francesco Bartolozzi
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Early life
Ba ...
, R.A.
*''The Wife with two Husbands: a tragi-comedy, in three acts
nd in prose Translated from the French (of
Pixèrecourt),'' 8vo, London, 1803. She had unsuccessfully offered this, with an opera based upon it, to
Covent Garden
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and
Drury Lane
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*
Fontenelles' ''Plurality of Worlds,'' 12mo, London, 1808.
*''Malvina, by Madame C—— (
i.e. Cottin)'', second edition, 4 vols. 12mo, London, 1810.
Novels
* ''The Packet,'' 4 vols. 12mo, London, 1794.
*''Lord Fitzhenry,'' 3 vols. 12mo, London, 1794.
*''The Foresters,'' altered from the French, 4 vols. 12mo, London, 1796.
*''The Orphans of Snowdon,'' 3 vols. 12mo, London, 1797.
*''The Gipsey Countess,'' 5 vols. 12mo, London, 1799.
* ''The Village Library,'' 18mo, London, 1802.
*''The Farmer's Boy,'' 4 vols. 12mo, London, 1802.
*''Family Stories; or Evenings at my Grandmother's,'' &c., 2 vols. 12mo, London, 1802.
*''A Sequel to Family Stories,'' &c., 12mo, London, 1802.
*''The Exile of Erin,'' 3 vols. 12mo, London, 1808.
*''The Man of Fashion: a Tale of Modern Times,'' 2 vols. 12mo, London, 1815.
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1769 births
1823 deaths
English translators
English women novelists
18th-century English novelists
19th-century English novelists
19th-century English women writers
18th-century British women writers
People from Long Melford
English women non-fiction writers
19th-century British translators
18th-century English women
18th-century English people