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Anne Plumptre

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22: 135:, the poet, was a close friend. She died in Norwich on 20 October 1818, at the age of 58, after a "productive and for the most part successful literary career" (Shaffer). 333: 114:; in 1810 she declared that she would welcome him if he invaded England, because he would do away with the aristocracy and give the country a better government. 368: 358: 328: 72:. She published her own fiction, travel writing and political enquiry, as well as many translations of letters, travel writing, drama, and other genres. 221:"Performing Scientific Knowledge Transfer: Anne Plumptre and the Translation of Martin Heinrich Lichtenstein's Reisen im südlichen Afrika (1811)" 378: 373: 363: 393: 338: 94:, translated from the German and published in 1801. From 1802 to 1805 she resided in France, and published her experiences in 1810 in the 388: 75:
She was well educated in French, Italian, Spanish and especially German. She began writing articles in periodicals. The freethinking
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Anne was one of the first to make German plays known in London, and in 1798 and 1799 translated many of the dramas of
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was known as a dramatist. Later she became involved in politics during the period of the
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In 1814–15 she visited Ireland, and recorded her experiences in the
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to Paris in August 1802. She became well known as a supporter of
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encouraged her. Her first book, a novel in two volumes, entitled
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and Anne née Newcome. Along with her younger sister
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Annabella Plumptre
Norwich
Robert Plumptre
Queens' College, Cambridge
Annabella Plumptre
Enfield circle
James Plumptre
French Revolution
Alexander Geddes
Kotzebue
Lucy Brightwell
John Opie
Amelia Opie
Napoleon
John Wilson Croker
Quarterly Review
Helen Maria Williams
"Plumptre, Robert" 
Dictionary of National Biography
"Plumptre, Anne (1760–1818), writer and translator | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/22399
UK public library membership
"Performing Scientific Knowledge Transfer: Anne Plumptre and the Translation of Martin Heinrich Lichtenstein's Reisen im südlichen Afrika (1811)"
"Plumptre, Anna" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Elinor Shaffer
Plumptre, Anne (1760–1818)

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