Author:Elizabeth Gunning

Elizabeth Gunning
(1769–1823)

English novelist, writer, and translator; also wrote later under her married name Elizabeth Plunkett.

Elizabeth Gunning

Works

Novels

  • The Packet (1794), in 4 vols.
  • Lord Fitzhenry (1794), in 3 vols.
  • The Foresters. A Novel (1796), in 4 vols.
  • The Orphans of Snowdon. A Novel (1797), in 3 vols.
  • The Gipsey Countess. A Novel (1799), in 5 vols.
  • Family Stories; or Evenings at my Grandmother's (1802), in 2 vols.
  • The Farmer's Boy, (1802), in 4 vols.
  • The Heir Apparent: A Novel. By the Late Mrs Gunning [...] Revised and Augmented by her Daughter, Miss Gunning (1802)
  • A Sequel to Family Stories, &c. (1802)
  • The Village Library; Intended for the Use of Young Persons (1802)
  • The War-Office: A Novel (1803), in 3 vols.
  • The Exile of Erin, (1808), in 3 vols.
  • The Man of Fashion: A Tale of Modern Times (1815), in 2 vols.

As translator

  • Memoirs of Madame de Barneveldt. Translated from the French by Miss Gunning (1795), in 2 vols.
  • Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by M. de Fontenelle (1803) (external scan)
  • The Wife with Two Husbands: A Tragi-Comedy, in Three Acts. (1803), translated from the French of René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt
  • Malvina by Madame C*****, Authoress of Clare d'Albe and Amelia Mansfield. Translated from the French by Miss Gunning (1804), in 4 vols.
  • Dangers through Life; or, The Victim of Seduction. A Novel [...] By Mrs Plunkett (Late Miss Gunning) (1810), in 3 vols.
  • Sentimental Anecdotes, by Madame de Montolieu, Author of 'Tales, 'Caroline of Lichfield: &c. &c. &c. [...] Translated from the French by Mrs Plunkett, Formerly Miss Gunning (1811), in 2 vols.

Works about Gunning


Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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