The Natural Daughter with Portraits of the Leadenhead Family by the poet, dramatist and novelist Mary Robinson was published in 1799 by T. N. Longman and O. Rees in Paternoster Row in London. The novel was originally published as two volumes, one a thousand copies were printed for the first edition of the novel. All the copies sold quickly and threw the book into its second publication in the same year. This romantic prose narrative is often thought to be Robinson's commentary on the French Revolution and the ideals of the English woman due to the various characters influenced by France and the members of the revolution who appear in the novel.