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Reception Frances Burney
In the year of publication Henry Singleton did two paintings illustrating scenes from Camilla, which are now at Chawton House Library .
Bree, Linda. “’The Lovely Cynthia’ Finds a Home at Chawton”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
16
, No. 4, pp. 11-12.
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Reception Charlotte Smith
CS has enjoyed a recent renaissance, with Stuart Curran 's edition of her poems, 1993, her Major Poetical Works edited by Claire Knowles and Ingrid Horrocks , 2017, Curran's fourteen-volume collected works from Pickering and Chatto
Reception Catharine Macaulay
Chawton House Library scheduled a workship in September 2013 to commemorate 250 years of CM 's History of England.
Chaber, Lois. Email to Women’s Studies Group.
Reception Catharine Macaulay
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
Reception Germaine de Staël
Benjamin Constant , formerly the lover of GS , represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man,
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, pp. 12-35.
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Reception Penelope Aubin
The borrowed text expands in a few places (but only in the early pages) and renames the characters (making a few slips), but otherwise changes nothing. This barefaced plagiarism remained undetected until Bonnie Kulik discovered...
Reception Eliza Haywood
Editor Carol Stewart writes that here Opposition writing becomes a vehicle for potentially radical thinking, often feminist in nature.
Bernard, Stephen. “Rediscovered secrets”. Times Literary Supplement, p. 25.
Stephen Bernard , reviewing the Chawton House Library edition, calls the narrator a magnificent construction: sexy...
Reception Jane Austen
Austen's status in the English-speaking world is not so far equalled among, for instance, French speakers. Valérie Cossy noted in March 2006 that (largely on account of inaccurate and inadequate translations) [v]ery few people in...
Residence Jane Austen
After four and a half years they had a permanent home again, provided for them by Edward Austen Knight on his Chawton estate. The red-brick cottage stands in the main road of the village, only...
Textual Production Mary Tighe
Henry Moore copied poems into a manuscript album which he titled Poems HM 1811 (now at Chawton House Library ). The first 66 pages are occupied by MT 's work, at the end of which...
Textual Production Mary Delany
The original manuscript, with the author's illustrations, is in the Lilly Library , Indiana University , while a fair copy made twenty years or so after composition, as a presentation gift to Queen Charlotte is...
Textual Production Fanny Holcroft
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...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
The copy now in the library at Chawton Houe bears an inscription from the author to her long-time friend Charles Edgeworth (half-brother of Maria ). An edition published at Boston in 1839 was entitled A...
Textual Production Joanna Trollope
JA pursued her Austen connection with a talk on her at a charity Christmas supper held at Chawton House Library on 5 December 2015.
Textual Production Clara Reeve
This novel was advertised for the 26th of February. The Chawton House Library copy has Reeve's gift inscription to a friend (Mrs Keller). She notes errors of the Press—infinitum, and begs her reader in lines...

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