Chawton House Library

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Reception Susanna Blamire
In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...
Reception Sarah Fielding
The shadow cast over SF by her brother Henry has been diminishing for some years. Reprints, scholarly editions, a biography, the printing of letters, and debate about her generic and critical place, all bear witness...
Reception Frances Burney
An adaptation of the story by Maureen Lyle for narrator, two singers, and piano was performed at Chawton House Library on 2 April 2016.
Reception Catharine Macaulay
Chawton House Library scheduled a workship in September 2013 to commemorate 250 years of CM 's History of England.
Chaber, Lois. Email to Women’s Studies Group. 9 Aug. 2013.
Reception Charlotte Smith
CS has enjoyed a recent renaissance, with Stuart Curran 's edition of her poems, 1993, her Major Poetical Works edited by Claire Knowles and Ingrid Horrocks , 2017, Curran's fourteen-volume collected works from Pickering and Chatto
Reception Frances Burney
In the year of publication Henry Singleton did two paintings illustrating scenes from Camilla, which are now at Chawton House Library .
Bree, Linda. “’The Lovely Cynthia’ Finds a Home at Chawton”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
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Reception Catharine Macaulay
Female historians have evinced more interest in CM than male historians, but their evaluations have often been tinged with condescension or qualified with mockery. Women mentioning her have included Alicia Lefanu in 1824, Dorothy Gardiner
Reception Eliza Haywood
Editor Carol Stewart writes that here Opposition writing becomes a vehicle for potentially radical thinking, often feminist in nature.
Bernard, Stephen. “Rediscovered secrets”. Times Literary Supplement, 14 Nov. 2014, p. 25.
Stephen Bernard , reviewing the Chawton House Library edition, calls the narrator a magnificent construction: sexy...
Residence Jane Austen
After four and a half years they had a permanent home again, provided for them by Edward Austen Knight on his Chawton estate. The red-brick cottage stands in the main road of the village, only...
Textual Production Joanna Trollope
JA pursued her Austen connection with a talk on her at a charity Christmas supper held at Chawton House Library on 5 December 2015.
Textual Production Penelope Aubin
PA 's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe.
The novel is available...
Textual Production Maria Susanna Cooper
What he wrote was that this novel had been much altered and added to after its first publication (which however has not been traced), and that he had made additional alterations in it before it...
Textual Production Michèle Roberts
In November 2011 MR edited Wooing Mr Wickham, a collection of stories inspired by Jane Austen or by Chawton House.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Roberts also selected the stories for this volume from those submitted to the...
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC , as the Author of Adelaide de Narbonne, published Stella of the North; or, The Foundling of the Ship: A Novel, in four volumes with Minerva Press .
A manuscript note in...
Textual Production Clara Reeve
This novel was advertised for the 26th of February. The Chawton House Library copy has Reeve's gift inscription to a friend (Mrs Keller). She notes errors of the Press—infinitum, and begs her reader in lines...

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