She evidently had difficulty completing this work, since as published it bore the date of 1794, and Cadell and Davies
had been pressing her for copy in December.
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and as a scholarly editor with her critical introduction to Mark Akenside
's best-known poem, The Pleasures of Imagination, for a new edition by...
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Anne Bannerman
Orientalist William Erskine
helped to arrange the publication of this work.
Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
AB
had hoped to be published by Cadell and Davies
, but could not get them to take her on.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
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Jane Austen
JA
's father
wrote to offer her First Impressions, anonymously, to the quality publishers Cadell and Davies
; his offer to send the manuscript was declined by return of post.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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