FJ
began keeping a diary in 1790 and continued it until October 1837. The later volumes are now at Lancashire Record Office
, while of earlier ones only excerpts transcribed by her great-nephew Charles Roger Jacson
Textual Production
Frances Jacson
This novel was advertised early the next year. As far back as 1945, Lewis's biographer Eliza Pearl Shippen
doubted the attribution to her of this novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 641
Shippen, Eliza Pearl. Eugenia de Acton (1749-1827). University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945.