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.
Genieys-Kirk, Séverine. “Eliza Haywood’s Translation and Dialogic Reading of Madeleine-Angélique Gomez’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Journées amusantes</span> (1722-1731)”. Translators, Interpreters, Mediators, edited by Gillian Dow, Peter Lang, pp. 37-54.
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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.
Montague Summers
lists a novel called The Penitent of Godstow; or, The Magdalen as published in 1804, but evidence of this work has not been found. The novel of 1812 is digitally available in Chawton House Library
It was advertised in a newspaper of 19-21 December 1786. A French translation, published in year one of the Revolution, was entitled La Victime de l'imagination, ou L'Enthousiaste de Werther. As in the case...
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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...
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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...
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Sarah Fielding
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...
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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.
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The text is available on...
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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...
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Anna Maria Bennett
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...
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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...