Unlike JW
's two previous works, this one was reviewed in the Quarterly Magazine and elsewhere.
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David Thame
believes that this and West's next novel represent a substantial change of register from gossiping...
Literary responses
Catherine Cuthbertson
Walter Scott
was hunting for a copy of this book in about 1813, calling it a now-forgotten novel;
Garside, Peter. “Walter Scott and the ’Common’ Novel, 1808-1819”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
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critic Peter Garside suspects that it exercised some influence on his Guy Mannering. Garside
calls...
Literary responses
Elizabeth B. Lester
Of the anti-Catholic arguments, Peter Garside
(the first to disentangle the identities of these two writers) comments: A far cry from jolly Mrs Ross
!
Garside, Peter. “Mrs. Ross and Elizabeth B. Lester: New Attributions”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
2
.
The sales figures suggest that EBL
was declining in popularity.
Publishing
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
She may have used two successive publishers. The Critical Review said the publisher was William Lane
of the Minerva Press
, but the bibliographer Peter Garside
and his associates record a copy published by S. Highley
Publishing
Charlotte Lennox
Published in four volumes (her longest) by Cadell
, it had been written some years previously. The section where the heroine's son is carried off by Indians was reprinted as The Lost Son, An Affecting...
Textual Production
Harriet Corp
HC
, as the author of Cottage Sketches and other works, published another didactic work, Familiar Scenes, Histories, and Reflections.
This work is not mentioned in Garside
et al., The English Novel. The...
Textual Production
Harriet Corp
HC
's Talents Improved; or, The Philanthopist, now known not to have been her earliest published work, mentions on its title-page her authorship of Interesting Conversations. The Bodleian
's copy (apparently the first...
Textual Production
Mrs Showes
She published this work with the Minerva Press
. Bibliographer Peter Garside
distinguishes MS
's book from another work of the same title published in 1820 under the pseudonym Lady Humdrum, Author of More Works...
Textual Production
Eleanor Sleath
ES
used different publishers, Black and Co.
and J. Harris
, for her final work, Glenowen; or, The Fairy Palace. A Tale, published with four pages of engraved plates.
This work is not listed...
Textual Production
Mrs E. M. Foster
The first novel attributed to Foster (as E.M.F.) was published in 1795 with the Minerva Press
, which also published (or republished) seven other novels linked to her between 1798 and 1801. The attribution...
Textual Production
Jane Harvey
About 1820 JH
published another short novel (72 pages) with Henry Mozley
of Derby, The Friends; or, The History of Harcourt and Powlett.
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This does not apppear in The English Novel 1770-1829 by...
Textual Production
Isabella Kelly
IK
, as Catherine Harris, published with Minerva Press
an epistolary novel, Edwardina, dedicated to Mrs Souter Johnston .
Critic Peter Garside
, writing in the electronic journal Cardiff Corvey, notes that while the subtitle of The Bachelor and the Married Man links it explicitly with The Balance of Comfort (a novel by...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Meeke
The tactic of linking pairs of Gabrielli novels through their titles was one she was to use again. A French translation of The Mysterious Husband followed in 1804. Midnight Weddings said 1802 on its title-page...
Textual Production
Margaret Minifie
Bibliographers Peter Garside
et al. suggest that this novel may be hers or that of her recently-deceased sister Susannah Gunning
.
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Texts
Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 29-43.
Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 14-117.
Garside, Peter. “J. F. Hughes and the Publication of Popular Fiction, 1803-1810”. The Library, Vol.
9
, p. 24058.
Garside, Peter. “Mrs. Ross and Elizabeth B. Lester: New Attributions”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
2
.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Garside, Peter. “The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 2: 15 - 103.
Garside, Peter. “Walter Scott and the ’Common’ Novel, 1808-1819”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
