Subscribers included Wordsworth
, Southey
, and De Quincey
, all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth
suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been...
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...
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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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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Amelia Opie
AO
's The Black Man's Lament; or, How to Make Sugar, designed for child readers and published in 1826,
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xxxix
has been reprinted in Pickering and Chatto
's 8-volume set Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation...
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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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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...
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Hannah More
She wrote it in haste, to catch the date when the issue was being debated in parliament
.
Roberts, William, 1767 - 1849. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More. 4th ed., L. and G. Seeley, 1836, 2 vols., http://Rutherford HSS.
1: 396
It has been included in several recent anthologies, and (along with HM
's The Sorrows...
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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, 1995, 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...
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Catherine Gore
The Bentley's Standard Novels edition came out in 1845.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
The novel also figures in Pickering and Chatto
's Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841, 2005. Its particular anonymity was designed to capitalise on public interest in...
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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.