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The novel is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope about designing only in harmony with Nature, and a frontispiece showing the rescue of a fainting girl. Like MC 's previous novel...

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...

This was a more ambitious affair, published anonymously with Colburn in five volumes, and dedicated to the Countess of Derby—a member of the aristocracy more famous in her previous incarnation as the highly successful actress...

No original has been identified; scholar Carol Markham assumes that the translation claim is itself fictitious. A facsimile appeared in a series from Arno Press in 1977 with a forward by Devendra P. Varma and...

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...

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.

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...

Or it may not. She had been dead some months, and use of her pseudonym may have been an obvious way of cashing in. This novel is on film in the Gothic Fiction collection put...

This was reprinted in 2004 by Asian Educational Services at New Delhi and included in 2003 by Adam Matthew Publications in part one of their microfilm collection Colonial Discourses.

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

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...

Her work long pre-dated the standard guides associated with the names and the publishing houses of John Murray in the mid-nineteenth century or Karl Baedeker in the early twentieth. The first form of MS 's...

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...

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...

CS was working on this novel during the final breakup with her husband; she dedicated it in verse to her children. The first edition (1,500 copies, published by Cadell ) sold out quickly. CS made...