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Publishing Mary Robinson
MR revised her book in its second edition, later the same year, as Thoughts on the Condition of Women, and on the Injustice of Mental Subordination. It was edited for Broadview Press by Sharon M. Setzer
Publishing Mary Robinson
The print run was 1,000 copies. MR switched to Longman, considerably to her benefit, shortly before the Hookham and Carpenter alliance was dissolved. The sum of £150 turned out to be her average annual income...
Publishing Mary Robinson
Again the print-run was 1,000 copies, but Longman paid only sixty pounds for copyright, perhaps because at two volumes the novel was only half MR 's previous length.
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
17
, pp. 191-07.
204n19
The recent scholarly edition from Broadview
Literary responses Susanna Haswell Rowson
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...
Publishing Sarah Scott
A fuller title is A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent; Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections . . . . The author is described as...
Publishing Mary Shelley
In 1823 William Godwin (inspired by a successful dramatisation of his daughter's novel, playing at the Lyceum Theatre in London as Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein) arranged a second edition for MS 's...
Publishing Mary Shelley
During this year MS helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci.
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span&gt”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 385-11.
388
She worked on her own fiction to distract herself when prostrated by grief after the death of her...
Publishing Lydia Howard Sigourney
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
Publishing Charlotte Smith
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...
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...
Publishing Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
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...
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
Robert Elsmere has remained perpetually in print ever since its appearance. Many of MAW 's novels are available online at the Victorian Women Writers Project and Project Gutenberg ; Marcella has its Broadview edition, 2002...
Literary Setting Edith Wharton
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...
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.
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to be a travel...

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