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The critical tide did not turn (despite some acute criticism from Virginia Woolf , who called Middlemarchthe magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up...

Before the second London edition, 1771, a French translation had appeared, probably at Paris, which purported to have been published in London. The English Short Title Catalogue makes the all too common mistake of...

She dedicated it to her correspondent, the Margrave , saying that she exposes her letters to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends.Horace Walpole

A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...

Her surviving, fragile diaries are now available in an edition by Ben P. Robertson in three volumes, 2007, and on film from Adam Matthew Publications , plus a bundle of letters and a copy of...

Her preface avows both a literary and a practical goal: she will be happy, she says, to please female readers with something new and romantic, but even more pleased if her volumes meet with a...

SLC was evidently well acquainted with the conventions of keeping a diary. She numbers her pages and records the date of each day in the margin, writing the month, often the year too, at the...

In manuscript this novel, planned in the same early period as St. Clair, extended to six volumes, transcribed for its author by a young admirer, Francis Crossley . She later said that...

After the queen's accession, MB presented her with a splendid manuscript copy in a velvet binding, which is now in the British Library : Harleian MS 1860, bearing the title of A Paper-Book in small...

This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799. Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...

It came out in four volumes from Robinson , but many copies were burned in a warehouse fire. After this The Lady's Magazine reprinted it as a serial beginning in February 1804. Robinson re-issued...

Her 281 subscribers, about 120 of them women, represented a complete cross-section of genteel provincial society. They included booksellers and a book club, and with some subscriptions for multiple copies accounted altogether for almost half...

LB 's papers at Manchester Central Library have been published on film by Adam Matthew in 1994, with those of Margaret Ashton , as the first part of Women's Suffrage Collection. The second part...

There was a French translation in 1819. The original is available in the Adam Matthew PublicationsGothic Fiction series.

CD 's first novel was re-issued by Arno Press in 1972, and the other three followed it two years later. Several are on film in the Gothic Fiction collection put out by Adam Matthew Publications .