Anne Fuller (died 1790) was an Irish novelist in the

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genre. She was one of the earliest women writers of

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Anne Fuller was the daughter of William Fuller and Jane Harnett of West Kerries,

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, County Kerry. Very little is known about her life except that she never married. She wrote three novels in the gothic style which were reprinted several times. She died of consumption in 1790 near Cork. Since women readers of novels with supernatural characters and situations were considered "liable to many errors, both in conduct and conversation" and writers were even more confined, writers like Fuller often published anonymously. Fuller reportedly published her work ''Alan Fitz-Osbourne'' anonymously. She was one of the "lost" women writers listed by

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in '' Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen''. Her work has since been reviewed as an insight into the early novelists and women writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. She is sometimes considered one of the key Irish authors in the development of gothic fiction along with

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, Anne Burke,

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, and Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan). Her writing itself, in contrast, Baker in 1924 described as 'mediocre'.

Bibliography

* ''The Convent; or, The History of Sophia Nelson,'' Anne Fuller, London: T. Wilkins, 1786 * ''Alan Fitz-Osborne, an Historical Tale''. 2 vols. Anne Fuller, Dublin: P. Byrne, 1787. * ''The Son of Ethelwolf: An Historical Tale''. 2 vols. Anne Fuller, London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789.

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The Formation of a Genre, Anne H. Stevens :British Historical Fiction before Scott, Part of the series Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print pp 1-20 THE SEARCH FOR THE ANGLO-SAXON ORAL POET ROBERTA FRANK DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOForgotten fiction: reconsidering the Gothic Novel in eighteenth-century Ireland Loving and Sly Parodies: the gothic and anti-gothic: Atwood’s Lady Oracle & Fuller’s The Convent
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