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The publishers were Combes, Lacy and Clark , London. MH says that although she is better educated in Latin than in shirt-making, she has to earn her living as a servant. If her book does...

This novel and Reginald are available through Eighteenth Century Collections Online .

This novel, as well as Melbourne, is available through Eighteenth Century Collections Online .

It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman...

The first edition (with other editions, Burney's next two novels, and one false attribution) is available from Eighteenth Century Collections Online . They are listed as by Fanny Burney; a search on Frances Burney...

Since some scholars believe that SB was not a woman but a pseudonym, other names have been put forward for authorship. They include Charles Gildon (who supplied the dedicatory epistle), or the Jacobite translator and...

Her title-page presents the subscription as a matter of charity by mentioning the death of her father, It also quotes Pope 's self-deprecating apology for writing: I left no calling for this idle trade.

AC had a grudge against Glasse dating back to the feud between her family and Glasse's half-brother, Lancelot Allgood (Esquire Flash in her book), who had, she said, ruined their livelihood. She expresses a marked...

She called herself both a young Lady and a Maiden Muse. By surviving until its third or benefit night, the play realised for the author just over £80. It was printed anonymously the same...