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The Atalantis was read in several conflicting ways. Pope used it in his Rape of the Lock to exemplify the brief reading fads of the fashionable female world which was drawn to it because it...

Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library 's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM ) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson , to emulate Henry Fielding and Smollett ...

This novel is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The dedication is dated 1 March and the book was reviewed by July. An advertisement for AMM 's previous novel appears at the...

This rare first edition is available from Chawton 's Novels On-line, http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. An apparently new edition published in 1811 by A. K. Newman (Minerva ) as Almeria D'Aveiro; or, the Irish Guardian actually consists...

Chawton House Library scheduled a workship in September 2013 to commemorate 250 years of CM 's History of England.

Female historians have evinced more interest in CM than male historians, but their evaluations have often been tinged with condescension or qualified with mockery. Women mentioning her have included Alicia Lefanu in 1824, Dorothy Gardiner

The subscribers included George Crabbe and his wife , and Mary Meeke (who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale ...

It had a preface and notes by Maria Edgeworth , who did not know ML very well personally but was impressed by the book. The Chawton House Library copy is one presented by Edgeworth to...

This book, set in the period which in England was Elizabethan , became notorious before publication through private salon readings. When published in Paris by Barbin , with the author's name withheld, it was immediately...

Though it is often hard to tell exactly how much wording comprises the title of works by EJ , this title may be read as To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the humble desire of...

This is another novel ascribed in earlier sources to Alethea Lewis , and available through Chawton Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Two plot-elements, indeed, are parallelled in Lewis's life: the motherless heroine, Caroline, and the long-drawn-out...

The Chawton House Library copy of this novel is digitally available among their Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The title-page (which quotes Cowper ) gives the date of 1823. Again, the generally-made attribution to Alethea Lewis

This one was shorter again: two volumes. RH 's London publisher was Longman . A later edition by the Minerva Press bore no date, but was advertised in 1812. The text is available on...

At some time FH is thought to have written Goldsmith. A New Drama in 2 Ac[ts]. A manuscript copy in Chawton House Library is believed to be partly in her handwriting. (Each act has...

The Critical Review felt that CH 's corrections were of more consequence, not less, because of the lapse of time during which they had been needed, and that the ability and attention of the astronomers...