Early in her marriage MR
's friends included two lesser-known women novelists, Mary Ann Hanway
and Catherine Parry
(the Welsh author of a single, moralising novel, at whose house she met the actress Frances Abington
Publishing
Eliza Parsons
She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 512
A title-page epigraph reads: Brutus said Virtue was but a name—tis more. ....
Textual Features
Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
Textual Production
Alethea Lewis
AL
's dedication to Sir Edward Littleton
, Member of Parliament for Stafford, praises him in this capacity and as a landlord. Her subscribers include many friends or relations, as well as writers like...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ellen Weeton
Though she scorned circulating libraries, her recorded comments on books include praise for Anna Maria Porter
's The Lake of Killarney, Mary Ann Hanway
's Ellinor, and Elizabeth Hamilton
's The Cottagers of...
