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Anthologization Jane Wiseman
The price was sixpence.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
It is included in Pickering and Chatto 's Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1740.
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 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...
Publishing Elizabeth Hamilton
She had begun writing this work the previous year.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.
1: 133
With it she began the series of her works on pedagogy. She quickly revised her first printed version, producing a second, revised edition as...
Publishing Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
Of her anonymity she wrote, I chuse to be concealed.
Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Letters on the Female Mind. Hookham and Carpenter.
1: 2
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press.
It was probably, however, the manuscript of this work lying on her publisher's desk which enabled one of her admirers to guess the...
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing Charlotte Charke
She claims that she began with the intention of writing only a brief account to preface her novel. She chose to publish in instalments to maximize the potential leverage on her father. She sent him...
Publishing Elizabeth Helme
She also increased the length of her work from two to four volumes. The novel was dedicated to Mrs Hastings , who, says EH , had encouraged both her first and her later works.
Mrs...
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...
Publishing Charlotte Dacre
It represents the erotic gothic in Gary Kelly 's 6-volume Pickering and Chatto collection Varieties of Female Gothic.
Publishing L. E. L.
It is reprinted with introduction and notes in Pickering and Chatto 's Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841, 2005.
Publishing Mariana Starke
It seems that she had begun to learn stagecraft in translating from Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis . The comedy was anonymously published in the year of its performance; a Dublin and another London edition quickly followed...
Publishing Sarah Stone
She had completed it by 1736.
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Stone: Enlightenment Midwife”. Clio Medica: Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter, Rodopi, pp. 128-44.
129
Publication was probably intended as a means to ensure the success of a daring career step: moving her practice from the West Country to London. Her full...
Publishing Lucy Aikin
It was published by Joseph JohnsonJoseph Johnson and dedicated to Aikin's friend born Anna Wakefield (who had married her brother Charles Rochemont Aikin , the one among Lucy's brothers whom their aunt Anna Letitia Barbauld had...

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Texts

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.