Cassandra Lady Hawke

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Standard Name: Hawke, Cassandra,,, Lady
Birth Name: Cassandra Turner
Married Name: Cassandra Hawke
Titled: Cassandra, Lady Hawke
Indexed Name: The Right Honourable Lady H***
CLH was the author of a single, sentimental, pompously styled novel published in 1788, as well as of unpublished works.
Large black type against a beige background, giving the book's title, the author's name as "the Right Honourable Lady H***" and its original publication date and publisher.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing 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/.
which suggests collaboration or co-operation between a group founded by John Trusler and a publishing house...
Publishing Ann Gomersall
She called herself Mrs. Gomersall of Leeds,
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 505
and mentioned her previous novel (having advertised this one at the end of the first). The Citizen appeared from Scatcherd and Whitaker , in two volumes...
Publishing Isabella Kelly
The preface states that much of this material was written before she reached the age of fourteen, and the rest under the pressure of a variety of domestic calamities,
Kelly, Isabella. A Collection of Poems and Fables. Richardson, 1794.
iii
including wrongs to her father...

Timeline

By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...

Women writers item

By 22 July 1797

William Beckford published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.
Beckford, William. Azemia. Sampson Low, 1797, 2 vols.
1: 21; 2: 43, 61, 236ff
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 20 (1797): 470

Texts

Hawke, Cassandra, Lady. Julia de Gramont. B. White and Son, 1788.