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Author: Francis, Sophia L.

Biography:

FRANCIS, Sophia L. (fl 1803-9)

All her writings appeared within a few years and then there are no more; if others had appeared, it would have been advantageous for her to have claimed them as "by the author of," and so it seems that she simply stopped, perhaps on marriage. Following the elegy for Montgomery dedicated to the Prince of Wales in which her name is given as "S. L. Francis," she was the author of four gothic novels: Vivonio (1806, "by a Young Lady"), Constance de Lindensdorf and The Nun of Miserercordia (sic, 1807, by "Sophia L. Frances"), and Angelo Guicciardini (1809). All were translated into French. The spelling of her surname as "Frances" seems to have been a publisher's error but it has led to considerable confusion. No reliable records have been found, however, for her birth, marriage, or death, under either spelling. (RPW; Montague Summers, A Gothic Bibliography [1940]; EN2)

 

Other Names:

  • S. L. Francis
 

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