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Textual Production Mary Robinson
Violet Fane 's inscribed copy is now at Chawton House Library .
Textual Production Sarah Butler
Since some scholars believe that SB was not a woman but a pseudonym, other names have been put forward for authorship. They include Charles Gildon (who supplied the dedicatory epistle), or the Jacobite translator and...
Textual Production Maria Callcott
Some of MC 's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library . A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 413-24.
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The Chawton Library copy is one presented by the author's father, With Mr. Godwin 's Compliments.
Chawton House Library Catalogue. http://www.chawton.org/library/index.html.
Godwin chose the work's title, as he...
Textual Production Margaret Cavendish
The frontispiece depicts her standing in a classically architectural niche flanked by figures of Athena and Apollo. Lines of poetry below advise the onlooker not to concentrate on her beauty but View her Soul's Picture...
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
A number of letters of MMS are extant. Chawton House Library holds a dozen of them.
Chawton House Library Catalogue. http://www.chawton.org/library/index.html.
Textual Production Mary Charlton
This novel was advertised as soon to be published in July (at which date the title was to be Laure; or, The Parisian), and as recently published on 30 October.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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It has a...
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
Chawton House Library has acquired two unpublished stories by MMS . One, of 128 pages, untitled but beginning There is a beautiful valley, is dated to 1828. It comprises about 20,000 words, of which only...
Textual Production Penelope Aubin
PA 's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe.
The novel is available...
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
As well as the privately-owned commonplace-book and the letters and stories at Chawton House Library , a large collection of MMS 's papers (diaries, letters, pictures, and a manuscript of hers entitled My Pedigree)...
Textual Production Elizabeth Stirredge
Its fuller title was Strength in Weakness Manifest. In the Life, Various Trials, and Christian Testimony of . . . Elizabeth Stirredge. A copy now in Chawton House Library has a long inscription by...
Textual Production Maria Susanna Cooper
What he wrote was that this novel had been much altered and added to after its first publication (which however has not been traced), and that he had made additional alterations in it before it...
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC , as the Author of Adelaide de Narbonne, published Stella of the North; or, The Foundling of the Ship: A Novel, in four volumes with Minerva Press .
A manuscript note in...
Textual Production Anne Damer
AD regularly gave away copies of her work to female friends, sometimes as wedding presents.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
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The Chawton House Library copy is inscribed as her gift to the Hon. Agar Ellison . The Lewis Walpole Library
Textual Production Mary Tighe
Henry Moore copied poems into a manuscript album which he titled Poems HM 1811 (now at Chawton House Library ). The first 66 pages are occupied by MT 's work, at the end of which...

Timeline

July 2003: Chawton House in the village of Chawton in...

Women writers item

July 2003

Chawton House in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, once owned by Jane Austen 's brother Edward Austen Knight , opened its doors as Chawton House Library , a research centre in women's writing.

Texts

Cole, Helen. “Rakes and Penitents: book illustration in digital form”. Physical Archives in the Digital Age, Chawton House Library.
Franklin, Caroline. “Keynote Talk”. Physical Archives in the Digital Age, Chawton House Library.
Levy, Michelle. “Invisible Books”. Physical Archives in the Digital Age, Chawton House Library.