Elizabeth Gunning was an English translator from French into English.

Gunning was the daughter of the John (Jack) Gunning and writer Susannah Minifie Gunning and later married a Mr. Plunkett.
Miss Gunning married Major James Plunkett of Kinnaird, co. Roscommon,Ireland in 1803; they had a son James "Gunning" Plunkett.
She died after a long illness on 20 July 1823, at Melford House, Suffolk. Their other children included George Argyle Plunkett, who became a physician in Brooklyn, New York.

Works

She published several translations from the French, including:

• Memoirs of Madame de Barneveldt, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1795. Prefixed to the second edition, in 1796, is a charming portrait of Miss Gunning by the younger Saunders, engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.
• The Wife with two Husbands: a tragi-comedy, in three acts [and in prose]. Translated from the French [of R. C. Guilbert de Pixèrecourt], 8vo, London, 1803. She had unsuccessfully offered this, with an opera based upon it, to Covent Garden and Drury Lane.
• Fontenelles' Plurality of Worlds, 12mo, London, 1808.
• Malvina, by Madame C—— [i.e.Cottin], second edition, 4 vols. 12mo, London, 1810.

Novels

• The Packet, 4 vols. 12mo, London, 1794.
• Lord Fitzhenry, 3 vols. 12mo, London, 1794.
• The Foresters, altered from the French, 4 vols. 12mo, London, 1796.
• The Orphans of Snowdon, 3 vols. 12mo, London, 1797.
• The Gipsey Countess, 5 vols. 12mo, London, 1799.
• The Village Library, 18mo, London, 1802.
• The Farmer's Boy, from the French of Deuray Dumesnil, 4 vols. 12mo, London, 1802.
• Family Stories; or Evenings at my Grandmother's, &c., 2 vols. 12mo, London, 1802.
• A Sequel to Family Stories, &c., 12mo, London, 1802.
• The Exile of Erin, 3 vols. 12mo, London, 1808.
• The Man of Fashion: a Tale of Modern Times, 2 vols. 12mo, London, 1815.

External links

• Books by Elizabeth Gunning at Internet archive