Anon., author of Vertue Rewarded (1693)

Life
Anonymous author of Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (London 1693) - set in Clonmel and in which Mirinda, a young Protestant lady, is wooed by a Prince in the Williamite Army; interwined with her tale is that of an Irish princess, Cluaneesha, in pre-Norman Ireland, and an Amero-Indian called Faniaca living during the Spanish Conquest; similarities to the later Oroonoko Aphra Behn (1688) and Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded of Samuel Richardson (1740) have been pointed out and the exoticisation of the Irish social landscape is a recurrent theme in criticism; two original copies survive - one in the Bodleian Library and one in the British Museum; there is a Wikipedia entry [online].

Works
Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess: A New Novel (London: Printed for R. Bentley 1693), [6], 184pp. [Wing V647]; Do. [Modern Novels, No. 12] (London: Bentley 1692) [sic COPAC; also London: British Library Microfilm]; Do. [another edn.] (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Early English Books online [1999]); and Do., an introduction by Hubert McDermott [Princess Grace Irish Library Ser., 7] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992), xl, 107pp., ill [22cm]; and Do., ed. by Ian Campbell Ross & Anne Markey [with] Irish Tales [1716], edited by Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas & Anne Markey [EArly Irish Fiction c.1680-c.1820] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010) [q.p.].

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