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• set I,
• v. 2. Epistles for the ladies / annotated and introduced by Christine Blouch; the texts edited by Alexander Pettit and Christine Blouch.

The InteLex Past Masters Women Writers database The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood contains the six volumes of The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, edited by Alexander Petit and published by Pickering & Chatto.

• set I,
• v. 1. Miscellaneous Writings, 1725-43 / edited by Alexander Pettit ; biographical introduction by Christine Blouch.

The InteLex Past Masters Women Writers database The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood contains the six volumes of The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, edited by Alexander Petit and published by Pickering & Chatto.

• set II,
• v. 1. The dramatic historiographer (A companion to the theater, v.1) and The Parrot / edited by Christine Blouch, Alexander Pettit and Rebecca Sayers Hanson.

The InteLex Past Masters Women Writers database The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood contains the six volumes of The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, edited by Alexander Petit and published by Pickering & Chatto.

• set II,
• v. 2. The female spectator (v. 1-2) /edited by Kathryn King and Alexander Pettit.

The InteLex Past Masters Women Writers database The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood contains the six volumes of The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, edited by Alexander Petit and published by Pickering & Chatto.

• set II,
• v. 3. The female spectator (v. 3-4) / edited by Kathryn King and Alexander Pettit.

The InteLex Past Masters Women Writers database The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood contains the six volumes of The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, edited by Alexander Petit and published by Pickering & Chatto.

• set I,
• v. 3. The wife, the husband, and the young lady / edited by Alexander Pettit and Margo Collins.

The InteLex Past Masters Women Writers database The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood contains the six volumes of The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, edited by Alexander Petit and published by Pickering & Chatto.

• set I,
• v. 1. Miscellaneous Writings, 1725-43 / edited by Alexander Pettit ; biographical introduction by Christine Blouch
• set I,
• v. 2. Epistles for the ladies / annotated and introduced by Christine Blouch; the texts edited by Alexander Pettit and Christine Blouch
• set I,
• v. 3. The wife, the husband, and the young lady / edited by Alexander Pettit and Margo Collins
• set II,
• v. 1. The dramatic historiographer (A companion to the theater, v.1) and The Parrot / edited by Christine Blouch, Alexander Pettit and Rebecca Sayers Hanson
• set II,
• v. 2. The female spectator (v. 1-2) /edited by Kathryn King and Alexander Pettit
• set II,
• v. 3. The female spectator (v. 3-4) / edited by Kathhryn King and Alexander Pettit.

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD This unique series -- edited by Richard Holmes -- recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece -- still thrilling to read and vividly alive. The philosopher William Godwin fell in love with and married the radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, only to attend her deathbed (giving birth to their child, the late Mary Shelley). Heartbroken, Godwin immediately shut himself up in his study and wrote this intensely moving biography. True to his philosophical belief in absolute sincerity, Godwin coolly describes Wollstonecraft's previous love affairs, her time in revolutionary Paris, her illegitimate child, and her two suicide attempts. The book almost wrecked both their reputations, but can now be seen as a masterpiece of indiscretion and human honesty.
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Mary Wollstonecraft is one of the most distinctive letter writers of the 18th century. She talked and thought on paper - her letters were a large part of the drama of her life. In them she grows from an awkward child of 14 to a woman of 38 facing death in childbirth. At different times they reveal her very modern desire to reconcile the irreconcilable: integrity and sexual longing, the needs and duties of a woman, motherhood and intellectual life, fame and domesticity, and reason and passion. Written on the hoof in cramped lodgings or swaying boats, the wilds of Scandinavia or freezing Paris, they form an extensive autobiographical document.
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• Acknowledgements Introduction Exile Writing to Live Girondism An Interest in Green Leaves The Goddess of Botany Jane Austen Beachy Head Charlotte Smith's Works in Chronological Order Editions of Charlotte Smith's Works Cited Primary Sources Secondary Sources.
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Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) was born into the landed gentry and married off at 15, on the insistence of a hostile stepmother, to a wastrel from a West Indian family whose money came from the slave trade. When her husband's fecklessness forced her to support herself and their nine surviving children alone, she at once became a celebrated poet and novelist. Writing at the time of the French Revolution, she wanted change in England too and commented sharply on the injustice of England's class system, on the legalized looting of Empire and the legal prostitution of arranged marriages. Her Elegiac Sonnets with their lonely landscapes greatly influenced William Wordsworth, while Jane Austen devoured her satirical fiction and adapted her plots and settings for novels of her own. Her personality comes across vividly from her letters, published here for the first time, and from Loraine Fletcher's sympathetic, scholarly narrative.
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'...a substantial contribution to studies of women in the 'Romantic' period, lively in its detail, wide-ranging in its argument; seeing Smith as a significant judge of her own turbulent times, and as an influence on her literary successors.' - 'Fletcher's biography is as compulsive as any novel, and it makes the reader simply long to read, and experience the redoubtable Mrs Smith at first hand.' - Kate Saunders, New Statesman 'For those interested in wormen's lives in the 18th century, Loraine Fletcher's book is a valuable addition to a widening discussion.' - Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Telegraph 'Sold, a legal prostitute' in marriage at fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support their children as a novelist. Combative and witty, she became a radical, controversial and very popular author at the time when the French Revolution raised high hopes of Reform; she had a lasting influence on the adolescent Jane Austen. Loraine Fletcher's vivid scholarly biography is as readable for the newcomer to the 1790s as for the specialist, tracing the embattled life in the wonderfully self-dramatising fiction.
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In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth- century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gordon challenges such slanders, and portrays instead the genius of this extraordinary woman. The two-generation approach to her life examines not only Wollstonecraft herself, but also her effect on her daughters and heirs (Mary Shelley, Fanny Imlay, Claire Clairmont and Margaret Mount Cashell), and the ways in which they carried her influence into subsequent generations. Gordon takes stock of Wollstonecraft's life in accord with her own values rather than through the reputation history has given her. The author looks at her important relationships with Gilbert Imlay and William Godwin, and her ideas about issues such as the problems of communication between the sexes and parenthood. Through this brilliant study, Gordon, the author of biographies of Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte among others, successfully reinterprets Mary Wollstonecraft for the twenty-first century.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Making of a Novelist
• Chapter 2. Her Own Story: The Adventures of David Simple
• Chapter 3. Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters of David Simple
• Chapter 4. The Governess, A New Experiment in Fiction
• Chapter 5. Forays into Literary Criticism
• Chapter 6. David Simple, Volume the Last
• Chapter 7. Collaboration and Innovation, The Cry
• Chapter 8. The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
• Chapter 9. The History of the Countess of Dellwyn Conclusion.
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A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding provides the most complete discussion of Fielding's works and career currently available. Tracing the development of Fielding's artistic and instructive agendas from her earliest publications forward, Johnson presents a compelling portrait of a deeply read author who sought to claim a place within literary culture for women's experiences. As a practical didacticist, Fielding sought to teach her readers to live happier, more fulfilling lives by appropriating and at times resisting the texts that defined their culture. While Fielding often retreats from the overtly political concerns that captured the attention of her contemporaries, her works are daring forays into the public sphere that both challenge and reinforce the foundations of British society. Giving voice to those who have been marginalized, Fielding's creative productions are at once conservative and radical, revealing her ambiguous appreciation for tradition, her fears of modernity, and her abiding commitment to women who must live within forever imperfect worlds.
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"A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time." (Amanda Foreman). English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. Nevertheless, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar. Both Marys became famous writers, fell in love with brilliant but impossible men, and were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile, fought for their position in society and thought deeply about how we should live. They also broke every rigid convention thrust upon them: Wollstonecraft chased pirates in Scandinavia and sailed to Paris to witness the Revolution. Shelley eloped in a fishing boat with a married man and faced down bandits in Naples. Wollstonecraft proclaimed that women's liberty should matter to everyone. Not only did Wollstonecraft pen the landmark book, The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, her work ignited Romanticism, inspiring a whole new generation of writers, including her daughter. At just nineteen years old, Mary travelled around Italy with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, and there wrote Frankenstein. Having pushed the boundaries of the literary form, she went on to become the editor of her husband's poetry - a feat of scholarship that established his posthumous reputation. For the first time, Romantic Outlaws brings together a pair of visionary women who should have shared a life, but who instead share a powerful literary and feminist legacy. This is inventive, illuminating, involving biography at its best.
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Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759. She was largely self-educated and worked as a school teacher, governess and editor. She made contact with the circle of radicals and artists which included Blake, Paine, Fuseli and Godwin. She went to Paris in 1792, met Gilbert Imlay and gave birth to their child. She married Godwin in 1797 but died after the birth of their daughter Mary (later Mary Shelley). The inner life of Mary Wollstonecraft is remarkably displayed in her personal letters, both in those from her early years to her friends and sisters and in those pathetic later ones to her lover Gilbert Imlay. Current biographies, all dating from the 1970s, as the times demanded, show the formation of the feminist and the genesis of the public works, especially of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Each biography used the letters copiously but none dwelt on them or quoted them at length. Indeed Claire Tomalin, whose biography is now the most accessible in Britain, was clearly embarrassed by the pleading approaches to Imlay and played down an episode which was central to Wollstonecraft's life and intellectual development. Janet Todd's biography will connect, for the first time, Mary Wollstonecraft's published works with her letters and discuss the psychological revelations, the desires and fears revealed in them. It will show how printed and private writings together reveal the divided nature of Wollstonecraft and the personal motivations of many of her general political themes. It will capture the emerging character of the woman who never ceased to reveal herself in all her writings.
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• At Mrs Garrick's
• Elizabeth Carter
• Charlotte Lennox
• Hester Thrale and Elizabeth Montagu
• Hannah More
• Fanny Burney
• Women and writing.

"I dined yesterday at Mrs Garrick's with Mrs Carter, Miss Hannah More and Miss Fanny Burney. Three such women are not to found; I know not where I could find a fourth, except Mrs Lennox, who is superiour to them all." --Samuel Johnson Dr. Johnson enjoyed the company of clever women. Dr. Johnson's Women explores his relationship with six remarkable and successful female authors, all of whom he knew well: Elizabeth Carter, Hannah More, Charlotte Lennox, Hester Thrale, Fanny Burney and Elizabeth Montagu. It is also an account of the characters and achievements of these women. It is often assumed that women writers in the eighteenth century suffered the same restrictions and obstacles that confronted their Victorian successors. Norma Clarke shows that this was by no means the case. Highlighting the opportunities available to women with talent in the eighteenth century, Dr. Johnson's Women makes clear just how impressive and varied their achievements were.
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• v. 1. General introduction, Alicia LeFanu, Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan (1824)
• v. 2. William Roberts, Memoirs of the life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839)
• v. 3. [Anon.], Some account of the life and writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume I
• v. 4. [Anon.], Some account of the life and writings of Mrs.Trimmer (1814), Volume II.
• v. 5. Part II, Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, memoirs of illustrious and celebrated women, of all ages and countries (1803), Volume I
• v. 6. Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, memoirs of illustrious and celebrated women, of all ages and countries (1803), Volume II
• v. 7. Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, memoirs of illustrious and celebrated women, of all ages and countries (1803), Volume III
• v. 8. Part III, Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, memoirs of illustrious and celebrated women, of all ages and countries (1803), Volume IV
• v. 9. Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, memoirs of illustrious and celebrated women, of all ages and countries (1803), Volume V
• v. 10. Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, memoirs of illustrious and celebrated women, of all ages and countries (1803), Volume VI.