E.J. CLERY is Senior Lecturer in English and Research Fellow with the Corvey Project on Romantic-Era Women's Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. She is author of The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 and Women's Gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelleyand co-editor of Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820. - CAROLINE FRANKLIN is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Swansea. Her publications include Byron's Heroines which was awarded the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay prize for 1995 and Byron: A Literary Life. - PETER GARSIDE is Professor of English Literature and Chair of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research at Cardiff University. He is one of the general editors, with James Raven and Rainer SchOwerling, of The English Novel, 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Post Fiction Published in the British Isles and has published widely in the field of Scottish fiction, publishing history, and Romantic literature.

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• List of Tables List of Plates Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: P.Garside, E.J.Clery & C.Franklin PART I: AUTHORSHIP Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy; P.Perkins Women Poets and Anonymity in the Romantic Era; P.R.Feldman Walter Scott: Anonymity and the Unmasking of the Harlequin; C.Lamont James Hogg and his Publishers: The Queen's Wake and Queen Hynde; D.S.Mack Author and Community: John Clare and John Taylor; P.Chirico PART II: COMMERCE Eliza Haywood and the Discourse of Taste; R.W.Jones Camilla in the Market Place: Moral Marketing and Feminist Editing in 1796 and 1802; S.Salih Economics, Expertise, Enterprise and the Literary Scene: The Commercial Management Ethos in British Circulating Libraries; C.Skelton-Foord Popular Romanticism?: Publishing, Readership and the Making of Literary History; B.Colbert PART III: THE PUBIC Cultures of Print: Mass Markets and Theories of the Liberal Public Sphere; J.Stoddart 'The Hastings Circle': Writers and Writing in Calcutta in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century; M.J.Franklin A 'Memorable Grave': The Abject Subtext of Charles Lloyd's Edmund Oliver; P.Keen State Patronage and the Romantic Writer: Henry Taylor's Modest Proposal; W.Christie Index