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Charlotte Lennox

CL published the first two volumes of Shakespear Illustrated, a pioneer work in the scholarship of sources.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
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Catharine Macaulay

Weekly serial publication of CM 's History of England began, to make it accessible to readers who could not afford to buy the volumes.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Susannah Gunning

The title-page of this initially three-volume work calls the authors the Miss Minifies of Fairwater in Somersetshire—thus linking their identity with their rank.
Gunning, Susannah, and Margaret Minifie. The Histories of Lady Frances S—,— and Lady Caroline S——. R. and J. Dodsley, 1763, 4 vols.
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The long subscription list includes Frances Boscawen , Jonas Hanway , and Miss Riggs of Bath Easton (later Lady Miller) . A fourth volume followed a year later. A second edition, 1765, is known only from a surviving copy of the middle one of its three volumes, held by UCLA .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Sarah Trimmer

ST published the first volume of her Sacred History; three further volumes followed within a couple of years, and finally there were six volumes in all.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
53 (1782): 155; 55 (1783): 133; 56 (1783): 70; 57 (1784): 317
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Sarah Murray

Sarah Maese signed the preface to the otherwise anonymous first volume of The School, being a Series of Letters, Between a Young Lady and her Mother.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Bonhote

EB published, anonymously with Becket and De Hondt , the first two volumes of The Rambles of Mr. Frankly, Published by his Sister.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
34 (1772): 472

Hannah More

By 23 July 1794, following the appearance of Paine's The Age of Reason, Porteus was urging More to write on the evidences of Christianity in the style of her Village Politics. She declined on the grounds that she was too busy with her schools. By the end of the year, however, backed by her Clapham Sect friends, she had planned her series.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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She possessed an extensive collection of pedlar's reading wares, chapbooks and ballads, on which she modelled her tracts.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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After the launch, three tracts appeared each month.
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
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Some appeared serially.
Scheuermann, Mona. “Ferocious Countenance: The Upper Classes Look at the Poor”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
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, 2000, pp. 53-79.
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Friends who circulated them included Elizabeth Montagu , Frances Boscawen , and Hester Lynch Piozzi . The receipt of subscriptions (1,000 in the first year) allowed the tracts to be sold at under cost; HM joked about being personally bankrupted. She used several successive printers, including Hazard of Bath, and John Marshall .
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis

This work was translated and published in London as Adelaide and Theodore; or, Letters on Education, 1783. (Its appearance came too soon for the young Maria Edgeworth , who was working on a translation of it herself.) A Dublin edition of the printed translation appeared the same year, and many re-issues followed, including serialization in The Nova-Scotia Packet and General Advertiser, which was published at Shelburne, NS, from 1785.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Davies, Gwendolyn. “Loyalist Printers in a Post-Revolutionary Culture of Mobility: Shelburne, Nova Scotia, as a Case Study”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS/SCEDHS) Conference, 20 Oct. 2012.
Gillian Dow has edited the 1783 translation for the Chawton House Library Series: Women's Novels, 2007.

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Charlotte Smith

The publication was initially turned down by Cadell and Davies . The two-volume edition was published by Sampson Low in 1800. They published a third volume in 1801, and two further volumes followed from Longman and Rees in 1802, with a preface dated 1 February that year.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Joanna Southcott

JS borrowed money to begin publication at Exeter of her first tract, The Strange Effects of Faith.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
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Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
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Sophia Lee

SL published with Cadell , as the author of The Chapter of Accidents, the first volume of her historical novel The Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
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Henrietta Battier

HB issued two instalments (she promised another, which seems not have appeared) of The Kirwanade, or Poetical Epistle, a political lampoon; the second edition or re-issue called her Patt. Pindar.
Battier, Henrietta. The Kirwanade. Printed for the author, 1791, 2 pt.
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Ann Eliza Bleecker

AEB 's The History of Maria Kittle, an epistolary novel which draws on actual life, appeared posthumously in serial form in the New-York Magazine.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.

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Ann Yearsley

AY published the first two volumes of her single novel, The Royal Captives; two more volumes soon followed.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 14 (1795): 391

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