Phebe Gibbes

Phebe Gibbes (died 1805) was an 18th-century English novelist and early feminist. She authored twenty-two books between 1764 and 1790, and is best known for the novels The History of Mr. Francis Clive (1764), The Fruitless Repentance; or, the History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (1769), and The History of Miss Eliza Musgrove (1769). She received recent attention with the scholarly publication of Hartly House Calcutta (1789) in 2007.^[1]

^ Although Gibbes is little-published in recent years, access to at least ten of her novels' original publications is available on "Eighteenth Century Collections Online."

[1] Although Gibbes is little-published in recent years, access to at least ten of her novels' original publications is available on "Eighteenth Century Collections Online."

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