Susannah Gunning
Susannah Gunning, née Minifie was a British novelist.
She was daughter of Reverend Dr. James Minifie. Her sister was Margaret Minifie.
On 8 August 1768, she married Captain John Gunning of the 65th Regiment of Foot, who distinguished himself at the Battle of Bunker Hill; they had a daughter Elizabeth Gunning, who was a novelist.
She wrote epistolary novels.Works
- Barford Abbey , 1767; Garland Pub., 1975, ; Lightning Source Inc, 2006,
- The cottage: a novel , H. Saunders, J. Potts, W. Sleater, 1775
- Susannah Gunning, M. Minifie The Count of Poland, J. and R. Byrn for Messieurs Price, Whitestone, 1780
- Anecdotes of the Delborough Family: a Novel, 2nd ed; London: Lane, 1792
- Memoirs of Mary: a Novel, 3rd ed; London: Bell, 1794
- Lord Fitzhenry, 1794
- Fashionable Involvements: a Novel, 3rd ed; London: Longman and Rees, 1800
- The Heir Apparent: a Novel , London: Ridgeway & Symonds, 1794;
- Love at First Sight: a Novel, London: Lowndes, 1797
