Doubts about her authorship were intensified by the discovery that the minor novelist Sophia Briscoe
received payment (twelve guineas) for this novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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But its quality is far above Briscoe's usual level. Perhaps this is...
Textual Production
Sir Walter Scott
Fifty years before that, lengths and prices had been more various. Three-volume novels were already standard, but whereas The History of Lady Barton by Elizabeth Griffith
and The Old Maid by Ann Skinn
, both...
Timeline
1771: In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds painted,...
Perry, Ruth. “Clarissa’s Daughters, or The History of Innocence Betrayed. How Women Writers Rewrote Richardson”. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 119-41.
