1775–1810) was a prolific novelist, poet, translator, and biographer, active in the Romantic period, who published the bulk of her works with market-driven publishers James Fletcher Hughes and William Lane of the Minerva Press.

Some of her novels have been described as "potboilers," though she also wrote "an excellent theatrical biography" and other "intelligent and interesting work.

She translated Lindorf and Caroline (1803), an historical novel attributed to the highly prolific yet stringently anonymous German author, Benedikte Naubert.

[6] Young published either eight or nine novels; The family party (London: Minerva Press, 1791) has generally been attributed to her but at least one critic has argued that this is probably a miss-attribution.

It was at this point, at the end of a busy writing career, that Young was obliged to apply to the Royal Literary Fund.

While she was listed by Dale Spender in Mothers of the Novel in 1986 as one of the "lost" women writers of the period before Jane Austen, she has since received some critical attention.