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The second edition or issue, later the same year from George Kearsley of Fleet Street, seems to indicate that EF was dissatisfied with the publishers she had first chosen. There is a Broadview

Before the end of the year that saw the first volume in print, Mary Russell Mitford had heard (though it was probably an exaggeration) that HM had made more than £1,000 from those little eighteen-penny...

LHS was an indefatigable correspondent. Her papers are to be found at the Connecticut Historical Library , the Connecticut State Library , the Huntington Library , the Schlesinger Library , the New York Historical Society

CS had been writing this novel through the momentous revolutionary events in France; she was working on it in Brighton in November 1790 when Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France was published. She...

It was revised, expanded, and then issued in two volumes by 20 April 1867 (several months before the earlier-written novel). It reached a second edition late that year. A scholarly edition by Pamela K. Gilbert

The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her...

She wrote it while a member of the Marquess of Abercorn ''s household, where she read it aloud in the evenings to less than informed criticism. As before, she and Phillips could not agree on...

In The Custom of the Country (1913, issued in a scholarly edition by Broadview in 2008), Undine Spragg, beautiful social climber and insatiable consumer, already has two entanglements in her unmentionable past at Apex City...

The Critical Review was unimpressed by this novel: a strange medley of romance, history, and novel, in which the scenery is changed with the pantomimical rapidity of Voltaire 's Candide. . . . aukwardly...

Reviewers of the Broadview edition commented that Craik's original is fascinating, and credited it with confound[ing] the usual binaries and prejudices of the period.

Valerie Kossew Pichanick wrote an account of HM 's life and work in 1980, as did Gillian Thomas , 1985. Valerie Sanders 's Reason Over Passion, 1986, was the first major study of her...

A dramatic version of Lady Audley's Secret was staged by Ruth Herbert at the St James's Theatre , where MEB had recollections of being overstimulated as a child. Another adaptation, Lady Audley's Secret: A...

With the encouragement of MP Sir George Staunton (to whom they dedicated the volume), but unbeknownst to their parents, the sisters published it to support the family after their father became ill and bedridden...

MM 's Lines Written on the Death of Grace Aguilar are reprinted in the Broadview Press edition of Aguilar's Selected Writings, 2003.