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The critical tide did not turn (despite some acute criticism from Virginia Woolf , who called Middlemarchthe magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up...

The Indian setting of this novel has caused it to be filmed by Adam Matthew Publications in part two of Colonial Discourses Series Three: Colonial Fiction, 1650-1914.

Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby . They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell

Early in her conception of this project, Grant invoked the Spirit or the Muse of Biography: on what calm elevation dost thou reside, surrounded by the powers of just discrimination, candid discussion, and true delineation...

She said this was designed to serve the humble but useful office of introduction to more specialised works. It was illustrated with engravings, some of them based on the author's own sketches of buildings, etc...

This was said only to be Corrected and Revised by an Author of Celebrity; but SG was identified as this author on a later title-page. The Carthusian Friar was also published by Minerva Press

This was a more ambitious affair, published anonymously with Colburn in five volumes, and dedicated to the Countess of Derby—a member of the aristocracy more famous in her previous incarnation as the highly successful actress...

There is no complete edition of her letters, many of which remain unpublished. Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood, edited by Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle , appeared in 1983. Valerie Sanders edited Harriet Martineau: Selected...

The novel is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope about designing only in harmony with Nature, and a frontispiece showing the rescue of a fainting girl. Like MC 's previous novel...

Her preface avows both a literary and a practical goal: she will be happy, she says, to please female readers with something new and romantic, but even more pleased if her volumes meet with a...

She also increased the length of her work from two to four volumes. The novel was dedicated to Mrs Hastings , who, says EH , had encouraged both her first and her later works.

No original has been identified; scholar Carol Markham assumes that the translation claim is itself fictitious. A facsimile appeared in a series from Arno Press in 1977 with a forward by Devendra P. Varma and...

A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...

Before the second London edition, 1771, a French translation had appeared, probably at Paris, which purported to have been published in London. The English Short Title Catalogue makes the all too common mistake of...

Or it may not. She had been dead some months, and use of her pseudonym may have been an obvious way of cashing in. This novel is on film in the Gothic Fiction collection put...