Amelia Opie

Amelia Opie (born November 12, 1769, Norwich, Norfolk, England—died December 2, 1853, Norwich) was a British novelist and poet whose best work, Father and Daughter (1801), influenced the development of the 19th-century popular novel. Opie was the daughter of a physician. She had no formal schooling but moved in intellectual circles that included William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sydney Smith, Madame de Staël, and John Horne Tooke. In 1798 she married John Opie, a self-educated painter....