France, Holland, Austria, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark. She consistently supported the English war effort, reassures readers that England has the capacity to defeat France, defends Frederick the Great and William Pitt the Elder from critics, and argues against a premature peace that would make unnecessary concessions to France. Her frequent correspondence with Radical satirist and politician John Wilkes have been described as providing modern readers with "graphic evidence of the struggles of an independent woman in the 18th century attempting to support herself by writing". She described herself as a literary day labourer. She is not known to have published anything under her own name, although there are almost certainly many works published anonymously which cannot now be attributed. References 18th-century British women writers British political journalists 1715 births 1784 deaths 18th-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers