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An English religious writer; born at Stapleton, Gloucestershire, Feb. 2, 1745; died at Clifton, Sept. 7, 1833. She abandoned a successful worldly literary career at its height to devote her pen to the furtherance of education and religion. Her best-known works were the celebrated tract "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain" and the novel "Coelebs in Search of a Wife" (1809). She wrote also: "Sacred Dramas" (1782); "Religion of the Fashionable World" (1791); "Practical Piety" (1811); etc. Garrick produced her tragedies "Percy" (1778) and "The Fatal Falsehood" (1779). ("Works", 11 vols., 1830.)