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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...

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...

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...

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...

Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library 's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM ) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson , to emulate Henry Fielding and Smollett ...

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

This play (based on Aphra Behn 's The Lucky Chance, 1686) was published soon afterwards. It went through three London editions, an edition at Glasgow in 1757, and an adaptation and condensation...

This novel is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The dedication is dated 1 March and the book was reviewed by July. An advertisement for AMM 's previous novel appears at the...

This novel had two issues and a French translation in 1801. Carol Stewart edited it, together with Life's Progress through the Passions, 1748, for the Chawton House Library Series in 2013. The Chawton House Library

This rare first edition is available from Chawton 's Novels On-line, http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. An apparently new edition published in 1811 by A. K. Newman (Minerva ) as Almeria D'Aveiro; or, the Irish Guardian actually consists...

Successive editions (extending to an eighth in 1765) expanded from one to four volumes, tracking the expansion of the original, which contained stories for six days in 1722, but for eighteen days in 1731.

The ascription probably follows from the Marivaux translation of 1746, The Life and Adventures of Indiana, the Virtuous Orphan (above). The text of Indiana Danby's first two volumes (which are complete without the later...