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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...

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.

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...

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. If this was her...

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

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...

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...

The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her...

It bore a quotation from Montaigne on the title-page. AMB says the errors in her text sprang from its having been written far from home (in Edinburgh), in the greatest Distress, both of Mind...