The appearance of a rival translation (by some Ladies, unidentified, who had turned their polite accomplishments into earning skills as a result of falling into comparative poverty from ease and opulence) pre-empted publication...
Betham, Mary Matilda. “Preface”. Crow-Quill Flights.
2
A bookseller's catalogue (Pickering and Chatto
701), apparently on the evidence of a manuscript note in a copy of her Poems...
Textual Production
Mary Matilda Betham
She had been bargaining with a publisher in December 1803 about this volume of poems, as well as her biographical dictionary of women. At this stage Lady Boughton's husband, Sir Charles
had advised her not...
Textual Production
Sarah Pearson
Its publisher, G. G. and J. Robinson
, paid SP
twenty-five guineas for the copyright of this novel on 4 January 1794. John Watkins and Frederic Shoberl ascribed it (and her first volume of poetry)...
Textual Production
Mary Pix
After asking the actor George Powell
to help her get it accepted at Drury Lane, she had then taken it to the other theatre, and claimed that Powell plagiarised it in his The Imposture Defeated...
Textual Production
Mary Shelley
Pickering and Chatto
have included MS
in The Pickering Masters. Their eight volumes of her Novels and Selected Works, edited by Nora Crook
with Patricia Clemit
and others, 1996, includes her travel writing...
Textual Production
Clara Reeve
This work represents the genre of enlightenment gothic in Gary Kelly
's 6-volume Pickering and Chatto
edited collection Varieties of Female Gothic, 2001.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Varieties of Female Gothic. Pickering and Chatto.
Reeve issued it for the author (that is at her own...
Today DM
's stock is high, but she is less studied than many of her contemporaries. Her choice of genres and her close involvement with the political and other affairs of her time make her...
Reception
Catherine Talbot
Present-day critics like Stuart Curran
think highly of CT
as a poet. Rhoda Zuk
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography praises her as a feminist and a rational moralist, and argues that the dismissal...
Reception
Ann Yearsley
Selections of AY
's verse are include in Pickering and Chatto
's 2003 Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets volumes.
Reception
Eliza Haywood
EH
's fiction is well served by modern editions (many individual titles, and a collected volume of Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood edited by Paula Backscheider
). Moreover, her non-fictional prose has also...
Publishing
Elizabeth Hervey
This was written quickly, but the American episodes reflect research.
Hervey, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, p. vii - xxii.
ix
The Irish edition has an extended, descriptive title (absent from at least the second London edition), which promises moral and critical remarks, Anecdotes of...
Timeline
19 June 1725: Dorothy Stanley, née Milborne, published...
Women writers item
19 June 1725
Dorothy Stanley
, née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
February 1793: William Godwin published his Enquiry Concerning...
Writing climate item
February 1793
William Godwin
published his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, a radical text which was highly influential, not least for Godwin's future son-in-law Percy Bysshe Shelley
.
Texts
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
Bending, Stephen et al. “General Introduction”. Helen Maria Williams, A Tour in Switzerland, vol. 1 (1798), edited by Stephen Bending et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2007, p. ix - xxi.
Bowden, Caroline, editor. English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800. Pickering and Chatto, 2012.
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. “Introduction”. The Victim of Fancy, edited by Daniel Cook, Pickering and Chatto, 2009, p. xi - xxxi.
Williams, Helen Maria. “Introduction”. Julia, edited by Natasha Aleksiuk Duquette, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. xi - xxix.
Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto, 2012.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2005, p. xxix - xxxvii.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Editors Shattock, Joanne et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2005.
Green, Sarah. “Introduction: Romantic Reading and Writing: The Creation and Consumption of the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel; A Note on the Text”. Romance Readers and Romance Writers, edited by Christopher Goulding, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. ix - xxii, xxix-xxxi.
Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers. Editor Goulding, Christopher, Pickering and Chatto, 2010.
Haywood, Eliza, and Christine Blouch. The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood. Editor Pettit, Alexander, Pickering and Chatto, 2000.
Kaplan, Marijn S. et al. “Introduction”. Translations and Continuations: Riccoboni and Brooke, Graffigny and Roberts, translated by. Frances Brooke and Radagunda Roberts, Pickering and Chatto, 2015, p. i - xxix.
Keen, Paul, and Kevin Gilmartin, editors. The Popular Radical Press in Britain 1817-1821. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1790. Pickering and Chatto, 1999.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Varieties of Female Gothic. Pickering and Chatto, 2002.
Hervey, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. vii - xxii.
King, Kathryn R. A Political Biography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2012.
Manley, Delarivier. New Atalantis. Editor Ballaster, Ros, Pickering and Chatto, 1991.
Martineau, Harriet. The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau. Editor Logan, Deborah Anna, Pickering and Chatto, 2007.
Maunder, Andrew, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Varieties of Women’s Sensation Fiction, 1855-1880. Vol. 6 vols., Pickering and Chatto.
Oliphant, Margaret. “The Life and Letters of George Eliot”. Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, edited by Gail Marshall et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2003, pp. 1: 139 - 80.
Miller, Anna. “General Introduction”. [Lady Anna Riggs Miller], Letters from Italy (1777), Volume I, edited by Annie Richardson and Catherine Dille, Pickering and Chatto, 2009, pp. ix - xxix, 1.
Robinson, Mary. The Works of Mary Robinson. Editor Brewer, William D., Pickering and Chatto, 2010.
Shelley, Mary. Mary Shelley’s Literary Lives and Other Writings. Editor Crook, Nora, Pickering and Chatto, 2002.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.