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Textual Production Mary Tighe
Henry Moore copied poems into a manuscript album which he titled Poems HM 1811 (now at Chawton House Library ). The first 66 pages are occupied by MT 's work, at the end of which...
Textual Production Mary Delany
The original manuscript, with the author's illustrations, is in the Lilly Library , Indiana University , while a fair copy made twenty years or so after composition, as a presentation gift to Queen Charlotte is...
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...
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 Amelia Opie
The copy now in the library at Chawton Houe bears an inscription from the author to her long-time friend Charles Edgeworth (half-brother of Maria ). An edition published at Boston in 1839 was entitled A...
Textual Production Frances Burney
In April 1780 the author's cousin Edward Francisco Burney illustrated Evelina in three stained drawings. The one for volume two shows the heroine in her mood of depression after returning home from her visit...
Textual Production Sarah Waters
SW wrote her foreword to Dancing with Mr Darcy. Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House Library, selected in a competition which she had also judged, and published this year.
Waters, Sarah. “Foreword”. Dancing with Mr Darcy, Honno, pp. 1-4.
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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
Textual Production Elinor James
Though it is often hard to tell exactly how much wording comprises the title of works by EJ , this title may be read as To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the humble desire of...
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 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 Mary Leadbeater
It had a preface and notes by Maria Edgeworth , who did not know ML very well personally but was impressed by the book. The Chawton House Library copy is one presented by Edgeworth to...
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.
Roberts also selected the stories for this volume from those submitted to the...
Textual Production Mary Robinson
Violet Fane 's inscribed copy is now at Chawton House Library .
Textual Production Sarah Butler
Since some scholars believe that SB was not a woman but a pseudonym, other names have been put forward for authorship. They include Charles Gildon (who supplied the dedicatory epistle), or the Jacobite translator and...

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