William Mathews

Charles Mathews's elder brother, William (who died young, though after EKM ), was the most intimate Cambridge friend of William Wordsworth .

EKM 's husband and brother-in-law certainly had no high opinion of her writing. Her successor Anne Mathews pronounced What Has Been to be very weak, although better than EKM 's other, even poorer, unpublished novels...

Emily's writing occupies a place in the limelight. It seems, indeed, that the novel incorporates in its story some of the circumstances surrounding its actual composition. Here Frederick's belief in his wife's writing includes the...

On this date EKM 's husband indicated that the book was still unprinted. Publisher John Litchfield mentioned it on 15 January 1801 as EKM 's new novel, implying that there had been others. According to...