The publisher Robinson
initially encouraged EI
to write her memoirs. She worked at them for years in old age, sending them to friends and publishers for comment. Publishers proved difficult: they feared scandal, yet were...
Friends, Associates
Anne Plumptre
Elizabeth Inchbald
had written in veiled terms to Morgan
before the latter's marriage of her own brief and unhappy acquaintance (something like patronage) withAP
. This experience (which, she says, was well known to...
Publishing
Mary Robinson
MR
began writing for the Monthly Magazine, published by Richard Phillips
(as well as for the Morning Post).
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Textual Production
Mariana Starke
Richard Phillips
issued a revised and expanded edition of MS
's Letters from Italy as Travels in Italy. The significant addition was material on France (now accessible again after the peace of Amiens).
An application to the Royal Literary Fund
was secretly made on SW
's behalf by a relation of Elizabeth Heyrick
(perhaps her mother) and the publisher Richard Phillips
; they got her a grant of...
Publishing
Susanna Watts
It has not been traced. Edgeworth also reported: My father
is afraid, though she has considerable talents, to recommend her to Johnson
, lest she should not answer.