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Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
Chawton House Library has acquired two unpublished stories by MMS . One, of 128 pages, untitled but beginning There is a beautiful valley, is dated to 1828. It comprises about 20,000 words, of which only...
Textual Production Maria Callcott
Some of MC 's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library . A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her...
Textual Production Sarah Waters
SW wrote her foreword to Dancing with Mr Darcy. Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House Library, selected in a competition which she had also judged, and published this year.
Waters, Sarah. “Foreword”. Dancing with Mr Darcy, Honno, 2009, pp. 1-4.
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Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
As well as the privately-owned commonplace-book and the letters and stories at Chawton House Library , a large collection of MMS 's papers (diaries, letters, pictures, and a manuscript of hers entitled My Pedigree)...
Textual Production Margaret Cavendish
The frontispiece depicts her standing in a classically architectural niche flanked by figures of Athena and Apollo. Lines of poetry below advise the onlooker not to concentrate on her beauty but View her Soul's Picture...
Textual Production Ann Wall
The Chawton House copy has a note on the title-page: Sold at No. 4 Carpenters Buildings[,] London Wall
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24.
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The Chawton Library copy is one presented by the author's father, With Mr. Godwin 's Compliments.
Chawton House Library Catalogue. http://www.chawton.org/library/index.html.
Godwin chose the work's title, as he...
Textual Production Mary Charlton
This novel was advertised as soon to be published in July (at which date the title was to be Laure; or, The Parisian), and as recently published on 30 October.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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It has a...
Textual Production Mary Robinson
Violet Fane 's inscribed copy is now at Chawton House Library .
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 Penelope Aubin
PA 's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe.
The novel is available...
Textual Production Maria Susanna Cooper
What he wrote was that this novel had been much altered and added to after its first publication (which however has not been traced), and that he had made additional alterations in it before it...
Textual Production Michèle Roberts
In November 2011 MR edited Wooing Mr Wickham, a collection of stories inspired by Jane Austen or by Chawton House.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Roberts also selected the stories for this volume from those submitted to the...
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC , as the Author of Adelaide de Narbonne, published Stella of the North; or, The Foundling of the Ship: A Novel, in four volumes with Minerva Press .
A manuscript note in...
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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