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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...

She produced her account first in a shorter and then in a longer version. She may have worked on wax tablets which would hold only a short passage at a time, and transferred the...

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...

IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written ten novels. But it seems she underestimated: in addition to the eleven mentioned below, she listed an untraced title (not listed by OCLC or The...

This original manuscript is not extant. The text survives only in one copy (slightly damaged by mice or rats) by a third scribe, made around 1450. The involvement of these various hands in the...

Her Report on a Recent Visit to the Colony of Sierra Leone is available on film in the series Women, Travel and Empire, 1660-1914 from Adam Matthew Publications , 1999. It was reissued by Cambridge University Press

She had been working on this novel at least since November 1821, when her husband was helping her with revision. This time she used as a publisher her friend John Murray , who had...

Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth also translated a Greek tragedy at a precocious age, but her text does not survive. This non-survival and non-publication left it for Mary, Countess of Pembroke , to become the first...

A frontispiece shows an indoor scene in which a woman, presumably the heroine Sophia, sits between two standing men who each holds one of her hands. The book appeared this year both in a Dublin...

AMM signed an Introduction by the Editor which claims to have translated this text from an ancient German manuscript, but no original is known, any more than one is known for her previous original though...

This work was not reviewed until the following year. It appeared in French translation in 1798, and is available in Adam Matthew Publications as an example of the gothic.

The Indian setting of this novel has caused it to be filmed by Adam Matthew Publications in part two of Colonial Discourses Series Three: Colonial Fiction, 1650-1914.

The fuller title is The Womens Advocate; or, Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony, being in requital of the late fifteen sham-comforts. With satyrical reflections on whoring, and the debauchery of this age. The author...

There is no complete edition of her letters, many of which remain unpublished. Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood, edited by Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle , appeared in 1983. Valerie Sanders edited Harriet Martineau: Selected...

She spared the part covering the first two years, and what she had written for 1720 (mostly the months of April and May). She must have preserved the latter as evidence that she...