Henrietta Mosse (otherwise Rouvière), whose A Peep at our Ancestors (1807) and other novels have been described as “blocks of spiritless and commonplace historic narrative.”
Anna Elizabeth Bray (1789-1883), author of The Protestant, various competent historical romances, and “local novels.”
Mrs. Sherwood, an evangelical propagandist, who naïvely enforced her views in The Fairchild Family (1818) and Little Henry and his Bearer.
Elizabeth Sewell set the style of High-Church propaganda, developed by Miss Yonge. Her chief tales, Gertrude and Amy Herbert (1844), are rigidly confined to everyday life. The characters, if living, are uninteresting; and her morals are obtrusive.
Catherine Gore (1799-1861), author of over seventy tales; and, in her own day, “the leader in the novel of fashion.”
Lady G. Fullerton (1812-1885), author of Emma Middleton, who shares with Miss Sewell the beginnings of High Church propaganda in fiction.
Anne Caldwell (Mrs. Marsh), one of the best writers of the “revival” in domesticity. Her Emilia Wyndham (1846) was unfairly described as the “book where the woman breaks her desk open with her head.” Though contemporary with Pendennis, has no ease in style.
Mrs. Archer Clive (1801-1873), author of an early and well-told story of crime, entitled Paul Ferroll (1855).
Mrs. Henry Wood (1814-1887).—A good plot-maker, whose East Lynne—both as book and play—has been phenomenally popular for many years; though The Channings, and others, are better literature.