Sophia Briscoe

Sophia Briscoe (fl. 1770s) was an English author of two epistolary novels. Little is known of her life.

From the official documents available within a reasonable time frame and area of her (limited) known life, it appears that Sophia Briscoe was ‘independent’ in her profession, born in ‘Came County’ and was put on record at age 40. This independence may allude to a career as a writer, despite only producing two pieces of epistolary verse.

The next debated record of Briscoe may be one regarding her death, listed in the London Gazette’s Royal Assurance Office on October 5, 1826, at St. Giles’ in Reading, Berkshire. However, as these accounts were not the only listings under this name, this cannot be taken as fact. Provided by Wikipedia