Cecilia Brightwell

AO 's novels, which formed a comparatively minor part of her output, had an impact beyond the rest of her work. Literary historian Gary Kelly notes that when they were new they commanded among the...

MRM has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins 's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron 's Childe Harold. She despises Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis as a delightful mixture of cant and affectation...

Very early in her life Amelia Alderson (later AO ) began writing poems, songs, and several plays. An old manuscript book of hers, dated by Cecilia Brightwell 1791, seems to have contained one poem from...

AO left letters, diaries, and unfinished memoirs, which were excerpted in the Memorials of her life by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell in 1854. Some previously unpublished letters appear in an appendix to the Broadview Press edition...