Oliver Goldsmith

CL had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript...

PG issued a third novel this same year, The Fruitless Repentance; or, The History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (reprinted in facsimile by Garland in 1974). She told the Royal Literary Fund that...

Under the initial V, VF contributed a series of satirical sketches on the English upper classes to Edmund Yates 's The World. They were collected as The Edwin and Angelina Papers (1878).

Besides a splendid frontispiece portrait of EG in the first edition, with her published works around her, the book was further illustrated with plates originating in the magazine. The other contributors were Oliver Goldsmith (who...

The full title was Elements of the History of England from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of George II; it bore her name. The Critical Review dealt with the earlier volumes...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

She advises about relations with servants, about prompt payment of bills, and other aspects of running a complicated household. She says there will always be vacant Hours to fill up with reading, and offers...