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Textual Production Mary Robinson
Violet Fane 's inscribed copy is now at Chawton House Library .
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.
6
, No. 3, pp. 413-24.
414
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 Martha Sherwood
A number of letters of MMS are extant. Chawton House Library holds a dozen of them.
Chawton House Library Catalogue. http://www.chawton.org/library/index.html.
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Chawton House Library has acquired two unpublished stories by MMS .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 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)...
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
Publishing Elizabeth Isabella Spence
Publishing Elizabeth Isabella Spence
The book is dedicated to the Duke of Gordon (whose late wife, the controversial Jane, Duchess of Gordon , had also received dedications from several Scotswomen).
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
prelims
The copy now at Chawton House Library is...
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.
26
and...
Textual Production Elizabeth Stirredge
Its fuller title was Strength in Weakness Manifest. In the Life, Various Trials, and Christian Testimony of . . . Elizabeth Stirredge. A copy now in Chawton House Library has a long inscription by...
Publishing Elizabeth Strutt
The preface defines its aim as to amuse without injuring, and to instruct without offending. She says she began it in retirement at the behest of a sick friend.
Strutt, Elizabeth. Drelincourt and Rodalvi. J. Mawman.
prelims
If this was her...
Publishing Jane Taylor
Though the book reached a third edition, very few copies are now known: the Chawton House Library copy is available at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
It was advertised in a newspaper of 19-21 December 1786. A French translation, published in year one of the Revolution, was entitled La Victime de l'imagination, ou L'Enthousiaste de Werther. As in the case...
Literary responses Melesina Trench
Recently scholar Katharine Kittredge has given papers on MT 's poetry and her Mourning Journal and is publishing on her journal, her poetry, and The Moonlanders. At Chawton House Library on 22 February 2012...

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