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>”;. 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...
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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...
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Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
Of her anonymity she wrote, I chuse to be concealed.
Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Letters on the Female Mind. Hookham and Carpenter.
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
It is reprinted with introduction and notes in Pickering and Chatto
's Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841, 2005.
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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...
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...
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.