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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...

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...

This is available online from Chawton House Library at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.

EG 's version of Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette 's The Princess of Cleves. An Historical Novel is available in the Chawton House Library Novels On-line series at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Her version of Aphra Behn 's Oroonoko,...

The book is dedicated to the Duke of Gordon (whose late wife, the controversial Jane, Duchess of Gordon , had also received dedications from several Scotswomen). The copy now at Chawton House Library is...

JH dated her preface 12 February 1806. A former owner of what is now the Bodleian Library copy, who lived at Tynemouth Vicarage, wrote their name in the novel in 1936. The Chawton House Library

The subscribers included George Crabbe and his wife , and Mary Meeke (who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale ...

As Stockdale had anticipated, the pirates had a field day. Unauthorised editions included those of Onwhyn (whom Stockdale took to court, vainly, on 11 January 1826), Duncombe (whose verbatim and allegedly cheapest edition was advertised...

The publisher was Henry Mozley . This novel too is available in the Chawton House Library series Novels On-line, at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.

She said she wrote it in eight days.Chawton House Library has a copy of the first edition, available at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. A second edition followed the same year and one from the Navarre Society

She dedicated it to John Edmin . The text is digitally available through Chawton House Library 's Novels On-line series at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.

This novel is now available from Chawton House Library 's Novels on Line from http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.

This play (based on Aphra Behn 's The Lucky Chance, 1686) was published soon afterwards. It went through three London editions, an edition at Glasgow in 1757, and an adaptation and condensation...

Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library 's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM ) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson , to emulate Henry Fielding and Smollett ...