Chawton House Library

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Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The text is available through Chawton House Library 's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.
Publishing Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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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Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
Reception Susanna Blamire
In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...
Reception Frances Burney
An adaptation of the story by Maureen Lyle for narrator, two singers, and piano was performed at Chawton House Library on 2 April 2016.
Reception Frances Burney
In the year of publication Henry Singleton did two paintings illustrating scenes from Camilla, which are now at Chawton House Library .
Bree, Linda. “’The Lovely Cynthia’ Finds a Home at Chawton”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
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Reception Catharine Macaulay
Chawton House Library scheduled a workship in September 2013 to commemorate 250 years of CM 's History of England.
Chaber, Lois. Email to Women’s Studies Group.
Reception Charlotte Smith
CS has enjoyed a recent renaissance, with Stuart Curran 's edition of her poems, 1993, her Major Poetical Works edited by Claire Knowles and Ingrid Horrocks , 2017, Curran's fourteen-volume collected works from Pickering and Chatto
Reception Catharine Macaulay
Female historians have evinced more interest in CM than male historians, but their evaluations have often been tinged with condescension or qualified with mockery. Women mentioning her have included Alicia Lefanu in 1824, Dorothy Gardiner

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