Amelia Beauclerc

Amelia Beauclerc (1 January 1790 – 1 March 1820) was a British Gothic novelist.

[2] Her first two novels, Eva of Cambria, or, The Fugitive Daughter (1810) and Ora and Juliet, or, Influence of First Principles (1811), were published by mistake under the name "Emma de Lisle," the nom de plume of another novelist, Emma Parker.

Six of Beauclerc's eight novels were published by the Minerva Press, famous for their sentimental and Gothic titles.

Her interest was more in the former; one commentator called her novels "sham Gothic" because they focused more on sentiment than on more thrilling genre elements.

During her lifetime, Beauclearc received mixed reviews, from the utterly damning[5] to the moderately approving.