Corvey Collection

Though at least partly resident in Edinburgh, SF did not mingle with the literary set known as the Edinburgh Bluestockings. Apart from her large circle of siblings and in-laws, her closest friends were Charlotte Clavering

A frontispiece shows an indoor scene in which a woman, presumably the heroine Sophia, sits between two standing men who each holds one of her hands. The book appeared this year both in a Dublin...

The novel (which like its predecessor has a frontispiece), is dedicated with permission to Mrs Tennant , of Bromley in Middlesex, and the signed dedication says that AMM has now published a total of...

The first volume has a frontispiece (two women meeting a man in armour) and the title-page quotes some lines about the insecurity of a throne won through ambition. These are ascribed to Fielding 's Merope...

This rare first edition is available from Chawton 's Novels On-line, http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. An apparently new edition published in 1811 by A. K. Newman (Minerva ) as Almeria D'Aveiro; or, the Irish Guardian actually consists...

Convents had been abolished in France two years earlier, in 1792. Again ENB used a different publisher, this time J. Owen , but a Minerva Press catalogue of perhaps 1795 lists this book. It is...

Sir Walter Scott had encouraged her from poetry into novel-writing. Unless the condition of her eyes improved miraculously during the sixteen months before publication, she must have composed by dictating to an amanuensis. Copies of...

AMM signed an Introduction by the Editor which claims to have translated this text from an ancient German manuscript, but no original is known, any more than one is known for her previous original though...