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Creator:: Mathews, Charles, Mrs., -1802
Published / Created:: approximately 1798-1799.
Call Number:: LWL Mss Vol. 295
Image Count:: 394
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: A manuscript in a single hand of an unpublished Gothic novel that centers upon the orphan Margarette De Berry who, after the death of her benefactress Miss Mortimer, grows up at Molesworth Abbey unaware of her parentage. The characters include a villa...
Description:: Eliza Kirkham Mathews (1772-1802), born Eliza Kirkahm Strong in Exeter, Devon was the daughter of a physician George S. Strong (-1796) and his wife Mary. By 1796 she left penniless and alone, the sole survivor of her family. She earned a living by pub...
Subject (Topic):: Incest
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Romance of the turret, or, Anecdotes of a Catholic family : manuscript