Annabella Plumptre

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Standard Name: Plumptre, Annabella
Birth Name: Annabella Plumptre
Nickname: Bell
Pseudonym: A Lady
Self-constructed Name: A. B. Plumptre
Indexed Name: Bell Plumptre
Romantic-era writer AP 's career shadowed that of her probably better-known sister Anne ; but after novels and translations she turned to domestic and children's literature instead of to travel and political writing.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Anne Plumptre
AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and sister Bell , she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism .
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
viii and n4
Family and Intimate relationships C. E. Plumptre
The radical novelists and miscellaneous writers Anne and Annabella Plumptre were CEP 's collateral ancestors.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Plumptre
AP enjoyed all her life a close relationship with her next younger sister Bell .
Friends, Associates Henrietta Maria Bowdler
One of HMB 's male friends was James Plumptre , younger brother of the writers Anne and Annabella (though the sisters' radical politics were diametrically opposed to those of the Bowdler family). By 1802 she...
Friends, Associates Amelia Opie
AO 's friendship with Anne and Annabella Plumptre (daughters of Robert Plumptre , Prebend of Norwich, both of whom grew up to be writers) dated from their shared childhood.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
xxvi, ix-x
Her friendship with the...
Residence Anne Plumptre
AP and her sister Bell were living in Bedford Square in London; they had both been in London the previous year, perhaps visiting, perhaps already settled.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
xxvi
Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen, 2004.
317
Textual Features Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
Textual Production Anne Plumptre
AP 's last publication, the only one co-authored with her sister , was Tales of Wonder, of Humour, and of Sentiment.
The Gentleman's Magazine listed it this month, not as published but as nearly...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
The sisters Anne and Bell Plumptre both acted in it as well. Another performance followed two days later.

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Texts

Plumptre, Annabella. Domestic Management. B. Crosbie, 1810.
Domestic Stories. Translator Plumptre, Annabella, W. Lane, 1799.
Plumptre, Annabella. Montgomery. Minerva Press, 1796, 2 vols.
Plumptre, Annabella. Stories for Children. J. Mawman, 1804.
Plumptre, Anne, and Annabella Plumptre. Tales of Wonder, of Humour, and of Sentiment. Henry Colburn, 1818, 3 vols.
Iffland, Wilhelm Augustus. The Foresters. Translator Plumptre, Annabella, Vernor and Hood, 1799.
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von. The Guardian Angel. Translator Plumptre, Annabella, Vernor and Hood, 1802.
Spiess, Christian Heinrich. The Mountain Cottager. Translator Plumptre, Annabella, William Lane, 1798.
Plumptre, Annabella. The Western Mail. J. Mawman, 1801.