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Confusion arose at Minerva Press over the authorship of the novels Eva of Cambria, or, The Fugitive Daughter (1810) and Ora and Juliet, or, Influence of First Principles (1811). These were misascribed to "Emma de Lisle", which was Emma Parker"s pseudonym, but were not by her. The author was probably Amelia de Beauclerc.
The mishap was explained by Parker in a preface to readers of Fitz-Edward.
Or, the Cambrians: "lieutenant is necessary here to observe, that this Work would have appeared many months since. But, owing to a mistake, another manuscript, the production of another author, was sent to the press instead of mine, and, through inadvertency, printed under a similar supposition.
This has already been explained as far as it was possible. And I have only here to add, that the following Work is that which was announced some months ago, as being about to be published under the title of Eva of Cambria but as another person’s Novel has, through an error, been published under that name, it was necessary to give a new title to the present Work.".
