About Mrs E. M. Foster
Mrs E. M. Foster was a writer and novelist.
E. M. Foster (fl. late 18th – early 19th c.) was a Romantic-era novelist. Fourteen of her popular novels were published in London between 1795 and 1810.
Novels The Duke of Clarence. An historical novel (1795, signed E. M. F.) takes place in the 15th century, presented in what a modern critic has called "an incongruous style".
Foster's writing gained confidence as she turned to more modern subject-matter in Frederic and Caroline, or the Fitzmorris Family (1800, E. M. F.), in which retribution is wreaked on a shallowly portrayed version of the French author Germaine de Staël's heroine of that name.
Life E. M. Foster's personal details and life remain "obscure". She is one of the "lost" women writers listed by Dale Spender in Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen.
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