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Literary responses
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
EKM
's husband
and brother-in-law
certainly had no high opinion of her writing. Her successor Anne Mathews
pronounced What Has Been to be very weak, although better than EKM
's other, even poorer, unpublished novels...
Textual Features
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
Emily's writing occupies a place in the limelight. It seems, indeed, that the novel incorporates in its story some of the circumstances surrounding its actual composition. Here Frederick's belief in his wife's writing includes the...
Textual Production
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
On this date EKM
's husband indicated that the book was still unprinted. Publisher John Litchfield
mentioned it on 15 January 1801 as EKM
's new novel, implying that there had been others. According to...