Mrs. (Rachel) Hunter

After being widowed following about ten years of married life in Lisbon, she returned to England and settled in Norwich around 1794 or 1795. From then on, she devoted herself to writing, publishing a run of novels and moral tales before her death in Norwich in 1813.

Her known works include Letitia; or, the Castle without a Spectre (1801), History of the Grubthorpe Family (1802), Letters from Mrs. Palmerstone to her Daughter (1803), The Unexpected Legacy (1804), The Sports of the Genii (1805), Lady Maclain, the Victim of Villany (1806), Family Annals; or, Worldly Wisdom (1807), and The Schoolmistress (1810).

A nineteenth-century biographical source described her fiction as strongly moral in purpose. Even now, that makes her an interesting example of the kind of entertaining but openly instructive writing that found readers in the early 1800s.