a French into English translator and a novelist. Gunning was the daughter of John Gunning and writer Susannah Gunning. Miss Gunning married Major James Plunkett of Kinnaird, Co. Roscommon, Ireland in 1803, and they had a son James "Gunning" Plunkett. She died after a long illness at Long Melford, Suffolk. Their other children included George Argyle Plunkett, who became a physician in Brooklyn, New York. She published several translations from the French as well as almost a dozen novels.
