A second edition appeared in 1805 and a fifth in 1807. An undated one from William Darton
, which claims to be the eighth, is dated by the British Library
to around 1830.
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Publishing
Joan Whitrow
Once in print, however, The Work of God in a Dying Maid did well. It was reprinted at Dublin in 1797, and at Philadelphia the following year it was included in a collection entitled An...
An entry in the copyright ledgers of Darton and Harvey
, and an advertisement listing it with other books by PW
, led Lawrence Darton
in his bibliography of Darton publications to suggest that A...
Textual Production
Priscilla Wakefield
PW
, in her early forties, published her first work to reach completion, the historical Leisure Hours; or, Entertaining Dialogues between Persons Eminent for Virtue and Magnanimity, through Darton and Harvey
, in two...
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Priscilla Wakefield
PW
published with Darton and Harvey
her Juvenile Anecdotes, Founded on Facts. Collected for the Amusement of Children.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 15 (1795): 345
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Priscilla Wakefield
PW
published with Darton and HarveySketches of Human Manners, Delineated in Stories.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 12 (1807): 445
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Priscilla Wakefield
PW
published with her name, through Darton and Harvey
, Mental Improvement; or, The Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art, conveyed in a series of Instructive Conversations.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Mental Improvement. Darton and Harvey.
title-page
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 20 (1797): 119
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Priscilla Wakefield
PW
published with Darton, Harvey and Co.Variety; or, Selections and Essays, consisting of anecdotes, curious facts . . . with occasional reflections.
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New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research.
332
Publishing
Mary Martha Sherwood
William Darton
issued, in a juvenile-reader format with coloured frontispiece, MMS
's novel Caroline Mordaunt; or, The Governess, which twentieth-century critic Naomi Royde-Smith
thought her simply best novel.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan.
51
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Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS
's daughter Sophia Kelly
published with DartonThe Life of Mrs. Sherwood, which was chiefly autobiographical. The text draws generously on diaries written much earlier.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton.
title-page
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1398 (12 August 1854): 987-8
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Mary Martha Sherwood
Dudley Castle followed through Darton
the year after this, and MMS
continued to turn out at a great rate both adult novels and improving fiction for children. She published for the Religious Tract Society
...
Publishing
Hannah Mary Rathbone
A Boston edition of The Way to Make Home Comfortable bears the date 1850; an edition held not by the British Library or Bodleian but by the University of Liverpool
library was published by Darton and Clark
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Texts
Darton, William et al. City Scenes. Darton and Harvey, 1806.
Darton, William et al. Rural Scenes. Darton and Harvey, 1805.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. Limed Twigs, to Catch Young Birds. Darton and Harvey, 1808.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. Rhymes for the Nursery. Darton and Harvey, 1806.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Isaac Taylor. The Wedding Among the Flowers. Darton and Harvey, 1808.
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Instructive Hints, in Easy Lessons for Children. Darton and Harvey, 1800.
Heyrick, Elizabeth. The Warning. Darton and Harvey, 1805.
Rathbone, Hannah Mary, editor. Childhood. Darton and Harvey, 1841.
Somerville, Elizabeth Helme. James Manners, Little John, and Their Dog Bluff. Darton and Harvey, 1799.
Taylor, Jane et al. Original Poems for Infant Minds. Darton and Harvey, 1805.
Taylor, Jane. “The Beggar Boy”. The Minor’s Pocket Book, Darton and Harvey.
Wakefield, Priscilla. A Family Tour through the British Empire. Darton and Harvey, 1804.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Domestic Recreation. Darton and Harvey, 1805.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Excursions in North America. Darton and Harvey, 1806.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Instinct Displayed. Darton and Harvey, 1811.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Juvenile Anecdotes. Darton and Harvey, 1798.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Leisure Hours. Darton and Harvey, 1796.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Mental Improvement. Darton and Harvey, 1797.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Sketches of Human Manners. Darton and Harvey, 1807.
Wakefield, Priscilla. The Juvenile Travellers. Darton and Harvey, 1801.
Wakefield, Priscilla. Variety. Darton and Harvey, 1809.