Mrs F. C. Patrick was an 18th-century writer of Gothic fiction with at least three novels to her name.
One is, as is typical of many gothic novels, anti Catholic; one satirizes the novels of Mrs Radcliffe and other gothic writers; and the third refers to the national politics of the day, set in domestic scale plots.
[3][4][5][6] She is discussed as one of the Irish Gothic authors by various critics of the genre:[7] "During this period, the key Irish authors of Gothic fiction were mainly women, and include Anne Fuller, Regina Maria Roche, Anne Burke, Mrs F. C. Patrick, Anna Millikin, Catharine Selden, Marianne Kenley, and Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan).
Of those which, since the Ghost Seer, have hinged upon supernatural illusions, this is perhaps the only one that does not disgust by the impossibility of its incidents.
To the death of Sheffield we object, as an act of unnecessary and improbable cruelty, which indeed could not have been perpetrated.There is a longer discussion in the Monthly Review /JAS, 1799 vol.