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Eliza Parsons (1739?–1811)
Eliza Parsons (née Phelp) (1739 – 5 February 1811) was an English Gothic novelist. Her most famous novels in this genre are The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) and The Mysterious Warning (1796) – two of the seven Gothic titles recommended as reading by a character in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey.