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The Atalantis was read in several conflicting ways. Pope used it in his Rape of the Lock to exemplify the brief reading fads of the fashionable female world which was drawn to it because it...

The Critical Review felt that CH 's corrections were of more consequence, not less, because of the lapse of time during which they had been needed, and that the ability and attention of the astronomers...

Scholar Christopher Mulvey considers that this is the only eighteenth- or early-nineteenth-century grammar held by Chawton House Library that might well (unlike works by Ann Fisher or Susanna Haswell Rowson ) be enjoyed by a...

Recently scholar Katharine Kittredge has given papers on MT 's poetry and her Mourning Journal and is publishing on her journal, her poetry, and The Moonlanders. At Chawton House Library on 22 February 2012...

She regularly gives readings of her work, for instance at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on 29 May 2001. She is Professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia (having previously been Visiting Fellow...

JT is strongly committed to philanthropic action. She is the patron of a number of charities and has worked with the Society of Authors , the National Literacy Trust , and the talking books sponsored...

Genlis' daughters gave performances of these plays to large audiences (up to five hundred people). The work was several times translated into English (beginning in late 1780) as The Theatre of Education. A...

The Chawton House Library copy of this novel is digitally available among their Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The title-page (which quotes Cowper ) gives the date of 1823. Again, the generally-made attribution to Alethea Lewis

This novel is now available from Chawton House Library 's Novels on Line from http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.

This book, set in the period which in England was Elizabethan , became notorious before publication through private salon readings. When published in Paris by Barbin , with the author's name withheld, it was immediately...

As Stockdale had anticipated, the pirates had a field day. Unauthorised editions included those of Onwhyn (whom Stockdale took to court, vainly, on 11 January 1826), Duncombe (whose verbatim and allegedly cheapest edition was advertised...

EG 's version of Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette 's The Princess of Cleves. An Historical Novel is available in the Chawton House Library Novels On-line series at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Her version of Aphra Behn 's Oroonoko,...

She said she wrote it in eight days.Chawton House Library has a copy of the first edition, available at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. A second edition followed the same year and one from the Navarre Society

JH dated her preface 12 February 1806. A former owner of what is now the Bodleian Library copy, who lived at Tynemouth Vicarage, wrote their name in the novel in 1936. The Chawton House Library

The subscribers included George Crabbe and his wife , and Mary Meeke (who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale ...