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Gales was born in 1761 in Newark-upon-Trent, England, the daughter of John Marshall.
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Winifred Gales
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She exhibited literary talent at an early age and in 1787 published her first novel, The History of Lady Emma Melcombe, and Her Family. Because of his views, he eventually fled England for continental Europe, leaving Winifred in charge of the family bookstore and printing press In 1795, the Gales family sailed to Philadelphia and four years later settled in Raleigh, North Carolina where Joseph Gales became editor and printer of The Raleigh Register, a newspaper supporting Jeffersonian Republicanism.
In 1804, Gales published Matilda Berkely.
Or, Family Anecdotes, which is considered the first novel ever published in North Carolina by a resident of that state. Firm Unitarians and promoters of tolerance, the Gales left Raleigh for Washington, District of Columbia in 1833 amid growing orthodox trends in North Carolina.
She died in Washington in 1833, and is buried in the Congressional Cemetery.
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