Clara Reeve
1729
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1807
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
occupation: novelist, writer, translator
Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777). She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance (1785). Her first work was a translation from Latin, then an unusual language for a woman to learn. She was a near-contemporary of the bluestockings ladies of Elizabeth Montague's circle. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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