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Publishing Elizabeth Helme
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
Publishing Eliza Haywood
This play (based on Aphra Behn 's The Lucky Chance, 1686) was published soon afterwards.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
6 (1723-30)
It went through three London editions, an edition at Glasgow in 1757, and an adaptation and condensation...
Publishing Eliza Haywood
This novel had two issues and a French translation in 1801. Carol Stewart edited it, together with Life's Progress through the Passions, 1748, for the Chawton House Library Series in 2013.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Publishing Eliza Haywood
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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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, p. 25.
Stephen Bernard , reviewing the Chawton House Library edition, calls the narrator a magnificent construction: sexy...
Publishing Ann Hatton
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.
Publishing Jane Harvey
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
Publishing Jane Harvey
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.
Publishing Elizabeth Griffith
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,...
Textual Production Sarah Green
The literary-critical preface, unusually for such a satirical work, bears her intials. Green says she has reasons for concealing her name, but will affix the REAL initials of that name to this advertisement. ....
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
With PG 's name appeared the designation author of the History of Lady Louisa Stroud. There are copies of The Niece, now rare, at the British Library and Chawton House Library . PG
Performance of text Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Genlis' daughters gave performances of these plays to large audiences (up to five hundred people).
Dow, Gillian. “Books owned by Jane Austen’s niece, Caroline, donated to Chawton House Library”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
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The work was several times translated into English (beginning in late 1780) as The Theatre of Education. A...
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...
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 Ephelia
Mulvihill's website at http://marauder.millersville.edu/~resound/ephelia/ offers a great deal of information including identifications, put forward with greater or lesser degrees of certainty, of twenty-three historical personages named in Female Poems on Several Occasions, together with...

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