MMS
wrote later, It was a matter of course to me that I was to write, and also a matter of instinct. My head was always busy in inventions, and it was a delight to...
This was written quickly, but the American episodes reflect research.
Hervey, Elizabeth, 1748 - 1820. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. vii - xxii.
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The Irish edition has an extended, descriptive title (absent from at least the second London edition), which promises moral and critical remarks, Anecdotes of...
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Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
It is reprinted with introduction and notes in Pickering and Chatto
's Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841, 2005.
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L. E. L.
It is reprinted with introduction and notes in Pickering and Chatto
's Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841, 2005.
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Frances Brooke
The original had been well reviewed in England in January 1760, when Brooke had already written to Riccoboni to express her admiration. The translation went through seven editions during Brooke's lifetime, and was included by...
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Sarah Harriet Burney
She wrote The Renunciation in Florence, and finished it by December 1832. The Hermitage, one-third written at Florence, was complete by January 1838.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Her full title was Diary illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, interspersed with original letters from the late Queen Caroline, and from various other distinguished persons. This time (though the book...
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Jane Porter
The preface is dated in December 1809 at Long Ditton in Surrey—a country retirement which, she said, turned her thoughts back to childhood memories. This was one inspiration for the book, and another was...
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Ann Candler
The title-page read Poetical Attempts By Ann Candler, A Suffolk Cottager, with a Short Narrative of her Life. The British Library
copy (shelfmark 11632 aa. 11) contains some manuscript notes. Part of her text...
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Masters. 17 Aug. 2016.
Oddly, both...
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Elizabeth Montagu
EM
occupies volume one of Pickering and Chatto
's Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1790 (general editor Gary Kelly
, published in 1999), with the Essay on Shakespear, the published dialogues of...
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Hester Mulso Chapone
In the year of her Letter to a New-Married Lady, HMC
said she published in order to appease that uneasy sense of helplessness and insignificancy in society, which has often depressed and afflicted me...
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Ann Martin Taylor
It reached a sixth edition by October the next year.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 4 (1816): 439
It is reproduced in digitally enhanced facsimile by Pickering and Chatto
in their Conduct Literature for Women, Part IV, 1770-1830...
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Texts
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, Lady. “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, 8 vols.
Shelley, Mary. Mary Shelley’s Literary Lives and Other Writings. Editor Crook, Nora, Pickering and Chatto, 2002, 4 vols.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Editor Meyers, Terry L., Pickering and Chatto, 2005.
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. The Victim of Fancy. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.
Wiseman, Jane. “A Fairy Tale, Inscrib’d, to the Honourable Mrs. W— With Other Poems (1917)”. Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1740, edited by William Christmas, Pickering and Chatto, 2003, pp. 34-46.