Fergus, Jan. “Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins’s Anonymous Novels Identified”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
54
, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 152-6. 153, 155
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Publishing | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | She thus, years later, doubly disparaged her own earliest effort. Rejected by Thomas Cadell
, then accepted by Thomas Hookham
, this work has not been firmly identified. Literary historian Janice Thaddeus
notes that a... |
Publishing | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
had not at this date published anything she had acknowledged. As scholar Jan Fergus
notes, a brief ongoing ledger record which Hookham
opened with this title, ends at last (after he learned the identity... |
Publishing | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Hookham paid Hawkins five guineas for it in March 1792: this sum may have represented either part or all of her remuneration. He
must have lost money again on this work. Fergus, Jan. “Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins’s Anonymous Novels Identified”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 54 , No. 2, June 2007, pp. 152-6. 153, 155 |
Publishing | Henrietta Battier | She hoped to get a volume of her collected poems published while she was in London in 1784, and enlisted the aid of Samuel Johnson. Johnson
offered positive encouragement (assuring her he had often been... |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | This marks her abandonment of a series of other unsatisfactory publishers for the firm of Hookham
. Thomas Hookham
(who concentrated on fashionable bookselling but also published a few books a year) issued five of... |
Reception | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
tells a romantic story in her memoirs about this series of novels. A lady (still alive in 1824, resident near Windsor) admired them so warmly that she vainly badgered the kind, generous, worthy... |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Thomas Hookham
issued Memoirs of a Scots Heiress. Addressed to the Right Honourable Lady Catherine xxx, a novel by LMH
(not Eliza Kirkham Strong, later Mathews
) as by the Author of Constance, etc... |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | This was advertised as forthcoming in May and again in July. The same year it was reprinted at Dublin and excerpted in Monthly Extracts. This is one of LMH
's early novels on which... |
Textual Production | Eliza Nugent Bromley | Library catalogues such as OCLC guess the date of this undated novel as 1785, but it was reviewed by the Critical Review in March 1789 and the Analytical Review in June 1789. ENB used a... |
Textual Production | Ann Gomersall | It appeared in two volumes, undated, printed for the authoress, by the Literary Society
at the Logographic Press— qtd. in English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Thomas Hookham
issued Constance: A Novel as a young lady's first literary attempt. Though usually ascribed to the only thirteen-year-old Eliza Kirkham Strong (later Mathews)
, it is now known to be by... |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | The publisher Thomas Hookham
thus dated The Pharos. A Collection of Periodical Essays, issued by LMH
as by the Author of Constance (often misascribed to the future Eliza Kirkham Mathews
). Fergus, Jan. “Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins’s Anonymous Novels Identified”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 54 , No. 2, June 2007, pp. 152-6. 153 |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Thomas Hookham
published an epistolary novel, Argus; the House-Dog at Eadlip. Memoirs in a Family Correspondence, as by the Author of Constance and The Pharos—who till recently has been wrongly identified as the... |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Thomas Hookham
issued LMH
's Arnold Zulig, a Swiss Story, as by the Author of Constance and of other works. Again this has been misinterpreted to mean that the author was Eliza Kirkham Strong (later Mathews) |
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