[2] She applied for relief several times to the Royal Literary Fund from whom she received a total of 13 guineas.
[6] She is sometimes considered one of the key Irish authors in the development of Gothic fiction along with Regina Maria Roche, Mrs F. C. Patrick, Anna Millikin, Catharine Selden, Marianne Kenley, and Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan)[8] English Review /JAS, 1796 p377 Adela Northington; a Novel.
We recommend it for its lively fancy and flowing style; proper, impressive, and animated, without affectation.
There are many parts of this work that will draw the tear of sensibility; at the same time that there are others that will amuse the more lively reader.
The whole is much superior to any thing of the kind that had lately come into our hands before we read [Inchbald's Nature and Art, likewise here reviewed].Monthly Magazine / JAS, 1801 vol.
Mr [sic] Burke's 'Elliot, or, the Vicissitudes of Early Life,' is a well-written and pathetic narration.Burke is one of the "lost" women writers listed by Dale Spender in Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen.