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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.
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/.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 761
Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...
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
The only known copy, at the University of Virginia ...
Publishing Ann Radcliffe
It had been advertised in the London Chronicle on 22-4 April.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
93
The day after it appeared AR 's previous publisher, Hookham , issued a whole clutch of related works: new editions of her first...
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
She also wrote poetry while she was at Smith College
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
Continuing interest is reflected in a whole series of film...
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/.
This is...
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.
The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...
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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