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Clan-Albin: A National Tale
by Christian Isobel Johnstone
2022
5136 kr
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Christian Isobel Johnstone’s Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott’s Waverley; or ‘tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as editor of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine from 1834 to 1846, …
Ford Family in Ireland
by Elizabeth Ham
Inbunden, 2022
2458 kr
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Elizabeth Ham's 1845 novel, The Ford Family in Ireland, provides a snapshot, based on the personal experiences of the author, of a pivotal period in that country’s history. It examines the state of Ireland following the failed rebellions of 1798 and 1803 with a focus on the uprising of the …
Theodora, A Novel
by Dorothea Du Bois
Av Lucy Cogan
Inbunden, 2021
2458 kr
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Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois, published in 1770, is an entertaining and frequently shocking tale of a young woman’s efforts to regain her position in high society after her aristocratic father’s abandonment of and denial of marriage to her mother. The two-volume work is a thinly-veiled …
Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique
Inbunden, 2022
2458 kr
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This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel. Celia in Search of a Husband is a high-spirited and entertaining example of an anti-Jacobin novel, written at the height of the backlash against female intellectuals …
History of Lady Louisa Stroud, and the Honourable Miss Caroline Stretton
by Phebe Gibbes
Inbunden, 2022
2466 kr
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This new edition of the British epistolary novel The History of Lady Louisa Stroud, and the Honourable Miss Caroline Stretton examines the theme of female agency, and is an excellent example of women's writing in the eighteenth-century. The relationships of the author, Phebe Gibbes, with the East …
Rosella, or Modern Occurrences
by Mary Charlton
Inbunden, 2023
2466 kr
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Mary Charlton's 1799 Rosella, or Modern Occurrences is a fascinating novel that brokers between conservative and feminist ideas, humour and horror, and indulgence in and ridicule of sentimental tropes. Written in imitation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1615) and Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752), …
Family Annals, or the Sisters
by Mary Hays
Inbunden, 2022
2466 kr
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Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817. This philosophically complex novel examines the themes of the importance of women's education, economic equality of the sexes, and general equality among all human beings. This edition of Family Annals, with a …
Friendship in a Nunnery; or, the American Fugitive, by Phebe Gibbes
Inbunden, 2027
1834 kr
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Gibbes’s Friendship in a Nunnery; or, the American Fugitive, presents a fictional mash-up of two of 1778s blaring headlines: the controversial Catholic Relief Act, and the ongoing political crisis in North America. Published in September, three months after the June passage of legislation that …
What Has Been, A Novel by Eliza Kirkham Mathews
Av Jonathan Sadow, Elizabeth Neiman
Inbunden, 2025
2112 kr
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What Has Been, originally published in 1801, is an affecting, lively, and accessible read for scholars and students of the long eighteenth century. This critical edition includes an extensive introduction, notes, and appendices. Eliza Kirkham Mathews’ portrait of a struggling female novelist …
Elizabeth Meeke’s The Abbey of Clugny
A Critical Edition
Inbunden, 2026
2449 kr
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The Abbey of Clugny itself is a formulaic novel, using misattributions of identity, disguises, and alternative identities to make up for an often-lackluster plot. While such a description is hardly a glowing endorsement of the text, one corrective a critical edition of the novel could offer is to …
Divorced by Lady Charlotte Bury
Av Kerry Parker
Inbunden, 2026
2904 kr
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Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury née Campbell (1775–1861) is one of the most influential and least understood women’s rights activists of the nineteenth century. Her landmark text, The Divorced, has been out of circulation in the UK for almost two centuries; this new edition redefines her work not …
Romance of the Turret; or, Anecdotes of a Catholic Family, A Novel by Eliza Kirkham Mathews
Inbunden, 2027
1798 kr
Kommande
The Romance of the Turret or, Anecdotes of a Catholic Family (1798 or 1799) is an unpublished gothic novel by Eliza Kirkham Mathews author of What Has Been. The novel focuses on Margarette de Barry, an orphan who by turns of the novel’s plot discovers her mother’s tragic and sensational history. …
Translations and Continuations
Riccoboni and Brooke, Graffigny and Roberts
Häftad, 2016
361 kr
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This edition connects four female writers from two different countries, presenting the English translations of two of the most popular eighteenth-century French novels and a sequel to one of them.
Citizen
by Ann Gomersall
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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Ann Gomersall’s The Citizen (1790) is an epistolary novel, written over two volumes. Gomersall came out of the merchant class in Leeds and little else is known about her, but she began writing to raise funds for her merchant husband to re-enter business after he lost his money. This is the first …
History of Lady Julia Mandeville
by Frances Brooke
Häftad, 2016
867 kr
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Published in 1763, The History of Lady Julia Mandeville was Frances Brooke’s first and most successful novel. This modern critical edition contains an introductory essay on the text, endnotes and textual variants as well as appendices containing contemporary reviews and some of Brooke’s other …
Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale
by Sydney Owenson
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owenson's seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four 'national tales'. Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social problems in Ireland, following the passing of the …
Rash Resolve and Life's Progress
by Eliza Haywood
Häftad, 2016
984 kr
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Eliza Haywood was one of the most popular and versatile writers of the eighteenth century. The two novellas in this edition – The Rash Resolve (1724) and Life’s Progress (1748) – show her developing and adapting her ideas on the subject of passion and romance. Though superficially presented as …
Sketches of Irish Character
by Mrs S C Hall
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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Born in Dublin into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Anna Maria Hall moved to London when she was fifteen where she became famous for her books, plays and travel writing. It was her book, Sketches of Irish Character (1829) which made her a household name. This modern critical edition is based on Hall's …
Caroline of Lichtfield
by Isabelle de Montolieu
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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Thomas Holcroft’s 1786 translation of Isabelle de Montolieu’s novel is a textual encounter between a rather conventional Swiss woman and a British radical. Just as Montolieu did in her own translations, Holcroft reworked parts of the novel to make it more appealing to his intended audience.
Self-Control
by Mary Brunton
Av Anthony Mandal, Anthony Mandal
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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Self-Control (1811) was a literary sensation, going into four editions in its first year. The first novelist to set her story against a strong Scottish background, Brunton set the scene for other writers such as Walter Scott. Jane Austen was also a fan, she read it at least twice, worrying that the …
Invisible Spy
by Eliza Haywood
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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Interest in the work of Eliza Haywood has increased greatly over the last two decades. Though much scholarship is focused on her ‘scandalous’ early career, this critical edition of The Invisible Spy (1755) adds to the canon of her later, more sophisticated work.
Victim of Fancy
by Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
Av Daniel Cook
Häftad, 2016
984 kr
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The Victim of Fancy was first published in December 1787 and, despite favourable reviews, has not been published since. Cook's new scholarly edition of this forgotten novel will be of paramount importance in allowing new insights into the form of the sentimental novel as it actually existed in the …
Private History of the Court of England
by Sarah Green
Av Fiona Price
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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Whilst an important and under-researched example of women's writing, scholars of Romanticism and the nineteenth century will also find much value in this challenging political satire.
History of Ned Evans
by Elizabeth Hervey
Av Helena Kelly
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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Ned Evans is a rags-to-riches hero, whose early existence in poverty in Wales is dramatically changed when he saves the beautiful Lady Cecilia Rivers from an assault and is invited to Ireland by her father. After spending time with the great and the good of Irish society, Ned travels to America …
Romance Readers and Romance Writers
by Sarah Green
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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This edition of Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) is the first modern scholarly publication of what is arguably Green's most famous novel. As with many of her other works, Green adopts numerous sophisticated methods to parody her contemporaries.
Julia
by Helen Maria Williams
Häftad, 2016
984 kr
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This critical edition of Julia is the first modern printing of a novel that blends the character development of a poet with critical reflections on social injustice.
Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House
Av Jennie Batchelor, Megan Hiatt
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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First published in 1759, this novel aims to promote the cause of the Magdalen House, a charity which sought to rehabilitate prostitutes by fitting them for a life of virtuous industry. It challenges long-standing prejudices against prostitutes by presenting them as victims of inadequate education, …
Adelaide and Theodore
by Stephanie-Felicite De Genlis
Av Gillian Dow
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within the context of the late eighteenth-century debate on …
Romance of Private Life
by Sarah Harriet Burney
Av Lorna Clark
Häftad, 2016
799 kr
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Contains two tales - "The Renunciation", which presents a colourful picture of life abroad, when an English girl travels to Italy in search of kin and supports herself as an artist, offering an early feminist heroine; and, "The Hermitage", a psychological thriller involving a ruined country maiden …
Corinna of England, or a Heroine in the Shade; A Modern Romance
by E M Foster
Häftad, 2016
429 kr
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A novel that helps you understand the British reaction to Corinne as well as of its cultural, social and gender implications.
