MRS. AMELIA (ALDERSON) (1769-1853).-Novelist, _dau._ of a medical man, was _b._ at Norwich. In 1798 she _m._ John Opie, the painter. Her first acknowledged work was _Father and Daughter_ (1801), which had a favourable reception, and was followed by _Adeline Mowbray_ (1804), _Temper_ (1812), _Tales from Real Life_ (1813), and others, all having