Arabella Plantin

Arabella Plantin (born 1700) was an eighteenth century British novelist. She was the author of The Ingrateful; or, The Just Revenge) (1727) and Love Led Astray; or, The Mutual Inconstancy (1731).[1]

The Ingrateful is a story of an Italian woman who murders her husband after he has spent her fortune, and Love Led Astray is a pastoral tale of crossed lovers.[2]

The literary critic Bridget G. MacCarthy in her 1944-47 study, The Female Pen, described Love Led Astray as "an absurd travesty of the pastoral tradition", with critic Brian Corman describing Plantin as a writer of "outmoded and highly artificial romances."[3]

References

  1. George Watson; Ian R. Willison (1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: 1660-1800. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1968–. ISBN 978-0-521-07934-1.
  2. Charlotte E. Morgan (1 June 2010). The Rise of the Novel of Manners: A Study of English Prose Fiction Between 1600 and 1740. Wildside Press LLC. pp. 112–. ISBN 978-1-4344-2126-5.
  3. Brian Corman (2008). Women Novelists Before Jane Austen: The Critics and Their Canons. University of Toronto Press. pp. 202–. ISBN 978-0-8020-9770-5.
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