Before the end of the year that saw the first volume in print, Mary Russell Mitford
had heard (though it was probably an exaggeration) that HM
had made more than £1,000 from those little eighteen-penny...
Publishing
Hannah More
It occurred to More that while there were already good books enough in the world for good people,
qtd. in
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
193
the more numerous group of circulating-library readers were unprovided for. She therefore wrote (as she suggested...
Reception
Ethel M. Arnold
In 1990, John Sutherland
called this a sensitive novel that nonetheless made no impression.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
169
One hundred years after its first publication, during which time the novel remained in obscurity, Platonics was reprinted in the...
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Texts
Alexander, William, 1742 - 1788, and Jane Rendall. History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity to the Present Time. Thoemmes Press, 1995, 2 vols., http://U of A Ruth N .
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Esther Schwartz-McKinzie. The Story of Elizabeth; and, Old Kensington. Thoemmes Press, 1995.
Schwartz-McKinzie, Esther, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Introduction”. The Story of Elizabeth; and, Old Kensington, Thoemmes Press, 1995, p. iii - xxxii.
Waldron, Mary, and Hannah More. “Introduction”. Coelebs in Search of a Wife, Thoemmes Press, 1995.