Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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Connections
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Reception | Susanna Blamire | In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received. |
Reception | Sarah Fielding | The shadow cast over SF
by her brother Henry has been diminishing for some years. Reprints, scholarly editions, a biography, the printing of letters, and debate about her generic and critical place, all bear witness... |
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 | 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. 9 Aug. 2013. |
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 | 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. 16 , No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2012, pp. 11-12. 11 |
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 |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | Editor Carol Stewart
writes that here Opposition writing becomes a vehicle for potentially radical thinking, often feminist in nature. Bernard, Stephen. “Rediscovered secrets”. Times Literary Supplement, 14 Nov. 2014, p. 25. |
Residence | Jane Austen | After four and a half years they had a permanent home again, provided for them by Edward Austen Knight
on his Chawton estate. The red-brick cottage stands in the main road of the village, 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 | Joanna Trollope | JA pursued her Austen
connection with a talk on her at a charity Christmas supper held at Chawton House Library
on 5 December 2015. |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | In November 2011 MR
edited Wooing Mr Wickham, a collection of stories inspired by Jane Austen
or by Chawton House. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
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 | Clara Reeve | This novel was advertised for the 26th of February. The Chawton House Library
copy has Reeve's gift inscription to a friend (Mrs Keller). She notes errors of the Press—infinitum, and begs her reader in lines... |
Textual Production | Fanny Holcroft | At some time FH
is thought to have written Goldsmith. A New Drama in 2 Ac[ts]. A manuscript copy in Chawton House Library
is believed to be partly in her handwriting. (Each act has... |
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