Eleanor Sleath

[3] She is mentioned in the Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors, published in 1816, accompanied by a list of her works.

[3] Michael Sadleir had speculated about her religion, and Devendra Varma posited that she might be the widow of a surgeon.

[4] In 2012, Rebecca Czlapinski and Eric C. Wheeler published 'The Real Eleanor Sleath' in Studies in Gothic Fiction.

[5] She married Joseph Barnabus Sleath, a surgeon and apothecary, in September 1792 and moved to Nuneaton.

After controversy, gossip, and legal threats, the Dudleys moved away from the area (and later separated in 1811), and Sleath had a period of productivity during which she wrote several books.