The Vindication provoked a storm of comment and replies, in reviews (the Monthly was respectful both of her project and its execution, but the Critical, though its review was long and detailed, was scathingly...
Publishing
Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
BBBD
was careful about the fate of her work once published: the Pforzheimer Library
holds a letter in which she asked her publisher to paste an errata page into copies of this publication.
Many of MH
's letters are in the Pforzheimer Library
in New York, others at Dr Williams' Library
in London. Annie Wedd (her great-great-niece) edited MH
's letters to Eccles, then Fenwick's letters...