LIBRARY AND EARLY WOMEN'S WRITING
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Research papers
'Adventures in the Literary Marketplace': students' work
For the last two years, Prof. Emma Clery of the University of Southampton has run a course for English BA students which involves the study of some of the rare texts in the Chawton House Library collection.
The 'Adventures in the Literary Marketplace' course looks at issues surrounding eighteenth-century authorship and publishing, and centres on each student 'adopting' a book in the Chawton collection and researching the book's author, publishing history and contemporary reception, as well as looking at the text itself.
Below are some of the results of the students' work, including bibliographical details of the book, biographical information about the author, the book's publishing history and a critical essay on the work. The texts in question are mostly little-known and the students' research is a valuable resource for future readers and scholars of these works.
Anna Maria Bennett, Anna, or Memoirs of a Welch Heiress (1786) (2nd ed.; 1st ed. published 1785)
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By Ian Johncock.
Elizabeth Bonhote, The Fashionable Friend (1773) (1st ed.)
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By Janine Al-Tarafi.
Frances Brooke, History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763) (2nd ed.; 1st ed. also published 1763)
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By Hayley Sherratt.
Sarah Harriet Burney, Clarentine (1796) (1st ed.)
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By Gemma Sneath.
Sophia, Lady Burrell, Poems (1793) (1st ed.)
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By Monica Harris.
Elizabeth Gooch, Fancied Events (1799) (1st ed.)
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By Emma Lenanton.
Susannah Gunning, The Cottage (1769) (1st ed.)
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By Caroline Greaves.
Albinia Gwynn, History of the Honourable Edward Mortimer (1785) (1st ed.)
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By Rachael Hyde.
Cassandra Hawke, Julia de Gramont (1788) (1st ed.)
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By Paul Lenihan.
Elizabeth Helme, Louisa; or, the Cottage on the Moor (1787) (1st ed.)
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By Fiona Harlow.
Elizabeth Hervey, Melissa and Marcia; or, the Sisters (1788) (1st ed.)
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By Sarah Tegg.
Sarah Lansdell, The Tower; or, the Romance of Ruthyne (1798) (1st ed.)
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By Sara Vickery.
Eliza Parsons, An Old Friend with a New Face (1797) (1st ed.)
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By Kelly Spiller.
Anne Plumptre, The Rector's Son (1798) (1st ed.)
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By Caroline Strong.
Jael Henrietta Pye, Poems by a lady (1767) (1st ed.)
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By Becca Maxted.
Clara Reeve, The Two Mentors (1783) (1st ed.)
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By Elizabeth Eves.
Elizabeth Tomlins, The Victim of Fancy (1787) (1st ed.)
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By Abby Watts.
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