Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. 8 May 2011, http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.
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Friends, Associates | Sarah Lewis | SL
was a friend of Adelaide Ristori
(an Italian tragedy actress who married into the nobility and achieved an international reputation) and of novelists Alexandre Dumas the younger
, and George Sand
, among others... |
Publishing | Eleanor Sleath | This book was written during a highly social period of ES
's life, and advertised in February 1799. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 761 |
Publishing | Susanna Haswell Rowson | It was advertised for sale on 21 January. SHR
's preface defines her audience as the young and thoughtless of the fair sex. qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 544 |
Publishing | Ann Radcliffe | |
Publishing | Sylvia Plath | Shortly after her spell on Mademoiselle came her breakdown and attempted suicide: both episodes which she wrote about in her novel The Bell Jar. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991. 53-6 |
Reception | Louisa May Alcott | Intended for young audiences, the work ultimately appealed to a much broader readership. Within just over a year it had sold thirty thousand copies. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 239 |
Textual Production | Laurence Alma-Tadema | Given the coincidence of names in LAT
's family, it is hardly surprising that misattributions should have occurred. The British Library Catalogue adds the name of her stepmother, presumably in error, to its listings of... |
Textual Production | Anne Burke | It is dedicated to the Duchess of York
, and was advertised in March as soon to appear. The only copy known to survive is at the University of Virginia
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 666 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | OCLC records that the catalogue of the library at the University of Cincinnatti
ascribes to Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire
(wrongly) a reprint of Elizabeth Hervey
's The Mourtray Family. A Novel (which appeared in January... |
Textual Production | Susanna Haswell Rowson | A collection of SHR
's letters is in the University of Virginia
library. Epley, Steven. “Susanna Rowson’s Bible Abridgement and Its Relationship to Her Most Famous Novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA, 25 Mar. 2004. |
Textual Production | Emma Parker | The title-page quoted Pope
's dictum that woman's a contradiction still. Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby, 1811, 4 vols. title-page qtd. in Feminist Companion Archive. |
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. .... |
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