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Publishing | Jane Porter | The preface is dated in December 1809 at Long Ditton in Surrey—a country retirement which, she said, turned her thoughts back to childhood memories. This was one inspiration for the book, and another was... |
Publishing | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | |
Reception | Delarivier Manley | Today DM
's stock is high, but she is less studied than many of her contemporaries. Her choice of genres and her close involvement with the political and other affairs of her time make her... |
Reception | Catherine Talbot | Present-day critics like Stuart Curran
think highly of CT
as a poet. Rhoda Zuk
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography praises her as a feminist and a rational moralist, and argues that the dismissal... |
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 | Eliza Haywood | EH
's fiction is well served by modern editions (many individual titles, and a collected volume of Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood edited by Paula Backscheider
). Moreover, her non-fictional prose has also... |
Reception | Ann Yearsley | Selections of AY
's verse are include in Pickering and Chatto
's 2003 Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets volumes. |
Textual Production | Mary Pix | After asking the actor George Powell
to help her get it accepted at Drury Lane, she had then taken it to the other theatre, and claimed that Powell plagiarised it in his The Imposture Defeated... |
Textual Production | Sarah Pearson | Its publisher, G. G. and J. Robinson
, paid SP
twenty-five guineas for the copyright of this novel on 4 January 1794. John Watkins and Frederic Shoberl ascribed it (and her first volume of poetry)... |
Textual Production | Anita Desai | At Cambridge in 1991, AD
composed an introduction for an edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
's Turkish Embassy Letters, which appeared from Pickering and Chatto
in 1993 and from Virago Press
in 1994. |
Textual Production | Maria Edgeworth | The appearance of a rival translation (by some Ladies, unidentified, who had turned their polite accomplishments into earning skills as a result of falling into comparative poverty from ease and opulence) pre-empted publication... |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
wrote an epitaph for Sir Charles Rouse Boughton
which reached print. Betham, Mary Matilda. “Preface”. Crow-Quill Flights. 2 A bookseller's catalogue (Pickering and Chatto
701), apparently on the evidence of a manuscript note in a copy of her Poems... |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | She had been bargaining with a publisher in December 1803 about this volume of poems, as well as her biographical dictionary of women. At this stage Lady Boughton's husband, Sir Charles
had advised her not... |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | Pickering and Chatto
have included MS
in The Pickering Masters. Their eight volumes of her Novels and Selected Works, edited by Nora Crook
with Patricia Clemit
and others, 1996, includes her travel writing... |
Textual Production | Sophia Lee | The Recess is dedicated to Sir John Eliot, Elliot, or Elliott
, a Scottish physician who was successful and popular in London. (His wife, Grace, née Dalrymple
, had left him for another man, and... |
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