biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1776–1850)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Durham, Co Durham, NE England, UK. She had a great reputation as the author of historical romances, which enjoyed considerable success in their day. Her reputation was made with Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803), one of the earliest examples of the historical novel, and she was even more successful with The Scottish Chiefs (1810). |
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