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Intertextuality and Influence | Delarivier Manley | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Herschel | 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... |
Literary responses | Jane Marcet | 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... |
Literary responses | Melesina Trench | 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... |
Occupation | Joanna Trollope | 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... |
Occupation | Michèle Roberts | 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... |
Performance of text | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Genlis' daughters gave performances of these plays to large audiences (up to five hundred people). Dow, Gillian. “Books owned by Jane Austen’s niece, Caroline, donated to Chawton House Library”. The Female Spectator, Vol. 1 n.s. , No. 4, 2015, pp. 1-3. 2 |
Publishing | Amelia Opie | The fifth edition, 1808, has a frontispiece engraving of the painting by her husband
which is now at Chawton House Library
. It went through six editions of 1,000 to 1,500 copies in the years... |
Publishing | Rachel Hunter | This one was shorter again: two volumes. RH
's London publisher was Longman
. A later edition by the Minerva Press
bore no date, but was advertised in 1812. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997. 467 |
Publishing | Anna Miller | The next year Edward and Charles Dilly
in London both re-issued the three-volume Dublin edition and published a second edition compressed into two volumes. This added marginal notes identifying places and artists, and a place... |
Publishing | Frances Jacson | This is another novel ascribed in earlier sources to Alethea Lewis
, and available through Chawton
Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Two plot-elements, indeed, are parallelled in Lewis's life: the motherless heroine, Caroline, and the long-drawn-out... |
Publishing | Jane Taylor | Though the book reached a third edition, very few copies are now known: the Chawton House Library
copy is available at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. |
Publishing | Frances Jacson | 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 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Strutt | The preface defines its aim as to amuse without injuring, and to instruct without offending. She says she began it in retirement at the behest of a sick friend. Strutt, Elizabeth. Drelincourt and Rodalvi. J. Mawman, 1807, 3 vols. prelims |
Publishing | Anna Maria Bennett | It is dedicated to a Colonel Hunter, who is said both to have wept over Anna and to have been helpful to AMB
's daughter. The Minerva Press
printed a second edition in 1797, and... |