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ME intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.

It was advertised in this month. Her earnings from it contributed towards sending her thirteen-year-old surviving son to sea, and paid the school fees of the younger ones. A second edition followed in...

This work (whose too-early publication date on the title-page is unusual for this date) was published under her own name, with mention of her authorship of The Parental Monitor. She embellished the book with...

Her Report on a Recent Visit to the Colony of Sierra Leone is available on film in the series Women, Travel and Empire, 1660-1914 from Adam Matthew Publications , 1999. It was reissued by Cambridge University Press

More recently Adam Matthew Publications has filmed her poetical notebooks from 1806 to 1836 in their Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts, part five. A manuscript headed Mrs Southey's Narrative, which tells the story of...

A French translation of his edition appeared in Souvenirs des cours de France, edited by Francis Barrière , in 1862. The many reprints of the original have included one entitled In the Shadow of...

She had been working on this novel at least since November 1821, when her husband was helping her with revision. This time she used as a publisher her friend John Murray , who had...

The standard biography by Gardner B. Taplin is still the most detailed overall, but it dates from 1957. Other biographies of her singly or jointly with her husband have emerged, both popular works and more...

The first critical edition of EG 's works, in 10 volumes, appeared in 2005 and 2006 edited by a distinguished team of scholars headed by Joanne Shattock . It includes previously unpublished materials including some...

A stained-glass window was erected by subscription in honour of FH in 1865 at St Ann's Church, Dublin, where she is buried. A Felicia Hemans poetry prize is awarded annually for the best lyrical...

Professionally, Morgan was a notable success. She was a canny businesswoman, never afraid to assert herself against an established publisher or seek out a new one. This paid off in a remarkable level of earnings...

She apparently began by allotting so many pages to each letter of the alphabet, and it seems she could have continued collecting longer than she did, since at the end of her notes under A...

KP left many surviving manuscripts, now in the National Library of Wales and a number of other research libraries. She is the only woman included in part two of the Index of English Literary Manuscripts...

Despite the historical research, and setting aside later attention to getting dialect words exactly right, EG penned this work, says her biographer Jenny Uglow , page after page, without correction, in a fast-flowing hand...

AMM signed an Introduction by the Editor which claims to have translated this text from an ancient German manuscript, but no original is known, any more than one is known for her previous original though...