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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...

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

This single volume is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.. The title-page quotes Miller (presumably Anne, Lady Miller , of the Batheaston vase).

The text is available through Chawton House Library 's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.

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...

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...

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...

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. The text is available on...

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...

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...