Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | She said she wrote it partly to amuse myself, and on a sudden impulse. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 270 |
Publishing | Hannah Webster Foster | The full title was The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton; a Novel; founded on fact. It proved to be a best-seller, having eighteen more editions up to 1874. One published at Boston... |
Publishing | Amelia Opie | Its full title was The Father and Daughter. A tale in prose; with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her lover; and other poetical pieces. After a first print-run of 750 copies... |
Publishing | Mary Wollstonecraft | Many critics describe this as a travel book: the first one by a Romantic writer to deal with the exotic North. Critic Gary Kelly
, however, says that it purports Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan. 177 |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | Susan J. Wolfson
and Elizabeth Fay
edited for Broadview Press
, 2002, a parallel-text edition of The Siege of Valencia showing the first printed text side-by-side with the recently discovered original manuscript from the Houghton Library |
Reception | Charlotte Dacre | Two new editions of Zofloya appeared in the same year, from Oxford University Press
(World's Classics series) and Broadview Press
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Reception | Mary Robinson | The same year Broadview Press
issued her Selected Poems, with four portraits and the illustrations by Maria Cosway
, engraved by Caroline Watson
, to her poem A Wintry Day. These were followed... |
Reception | Grace Aguilar | As the number of titles published after her death illustrates, GA
's reputation flourished in Britain and in the US into the middle of the twentieth century. In the years following her death, her mother... |
Reception | Jane Austen | |
Reception | Michael Field | After being ignored (or scorned) during parts of their writing life, Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper have been resurrected in recent years by literary scholars interested in the rich field their work offers for... |
Reception | Harriet Beecher Stowe | The change in subtitle since the book's serial publication seems calculated to reduce its offensiveness to pro-slavery readers. The book sold an astounding 10,000 copies in the first week and sales kept on at a... |
Reception | Kate Chopin | KC
, while relatively well known and read during her lifetime, received little scholarly attention for generations after her death, apart from an early (1932) biography, and a few references to her as a local... |
Textual Features | Doris Lessing | These pieces are, says DL
, long stories, almost short novels. A most enjoyable form this, to write . . . although of course there is no way of getting them printed out of book... |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | AO
left letters, diaries, and unfinished memoirs, which were excerpted in the Memorials of her life by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell
in 1854. Some previously unpublished letters appear in an appendix to the Broadview Press
edition... |
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