Anne Fuller Explained

Anne Fuller
Death Date:	1790
Death Place:	County Cork
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	Irish
Genre:	Gothic novels

Anne Fuller (died 1790) was an Irish novelist in the Gothic genre. She was one of the earliest women writers of Gothic fiction.

Life and work

Anne Fuller was the daughter of William Fuller and Jane Harnett of West Kerries, Tralee, 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.^[1] She died of consumption in 1790 near Cork.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Since women readers of novels with supernatural characters and situations were considered "liable to many errors, both in conduct and conversation"^[5] and writers were even more confined, writers like Fuller often published anonymously. Fuller reportedly published her work Alan Fitz-Osbourne anonymously.^[6]

She was one of the "lost" women writers listed by Dale Spender in . Her work has since been reviewed as an insight into the early novelists and women writing in the 18th and 19th centuries.^[7] She is sometimes considered one of the key Irish authors in the development of gothic fiction along with Regina Maria Roche, Anne Burke, Mrs F. C. Patrick, Anna Millikin, Catharine Selden, Marianne Kenley, and Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan).^{[8] [9] [10]} Her writing itself, in contrast, Baker in 1924 described as 'mediocre'.^{[11] [12]}

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.

Further reading

• Dublin Chronicle 25 Sept 1790
• Gentleman's Magazine July 1790

External links

• 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 TORONTO
• Forgotten fiction: reconsidering the Gothic Novel in eighteenth-century Ireland
• Austin and the gothic writers like Fuller
• Loving and Sly Parodies: the gothic and anti-gothic: Atwood’s Lady Oracle & Fuller’s The Convent

Notes and References

1. Book: John Wilson Foster. The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel. 14 December 2006. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-67996-1. 40, 80.
2. Book: DeBurca Rare Books Catalogue 114.
3. Book: The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. registration. Lorna Sage . Germaine Greer . Elaine Showalter . 1999. Cambridge University Press, 30 Sep 1999 - 696 pages. 9780521495257.
4. Book: The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume 5. Angela Bourke. NYU Press, 2002 - 3201 pages.
5. Book: Clery . Emma . Clery . E. J. . Clery . Research Fellow in English Emma . The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 . 16 February 1995 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-45316-5 . en.
6. Book: FEMALE GOTHIC POETRY IN SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN ENGLAND OF THE 1800S. Anne Bannerman . Sarah Pearson . Barbara Hoole . Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, University of Ghent.
7. Book: Eugenia C. DeLamotte Visiting Associate Professor in Women's Studies Duke University. Perils of the Night : A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic. 22 February 1990. Oxford University Press, USA. 978-0-19-536346-3. 164–5.
8. 10. Romantic Textualities. The Publication of Irish Novels and Novelettes, 1750–1829,A Footnote on Irish Gothic Fiction. Rolf Loeber . Magda Stouthame-Loeber . June. 2003.
9. Book: William Hughes. David Punter. Andrew Smith. The Encyclopedia of the Gothic. 21 December 2015. John Wiley & Sons. 978-1-119-06460-2. 357.
10. Book: The Harp and the Constitution: Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin. 16 November 2015. BRILL. 978-90-04-30638-7. 107–8.
11. Book: Ernest A. Baker. The History of the English Novel. 1924. Rowman & Littlefield. 186. GGKEY:2FLJ1561ZZH.
12. Book: Jarlath Killeen. The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction: History, Origins, Theories. 2014. Edinburgh University Press. 978-0-7486-9080-0. 70, 126, 171.