Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
Theodora, A Novel: by Dorothea Du Bois
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucy Cogan
November 23, 2021
Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois, published in 1770, is an entertaining and frequently shocking tale of a young woman’s efforts to regain her position in high society after her aristocratic father’s abandonment of and denial of marriage to her mother. The two-volume work is a thinly-veiled ...
Fatal Errors; or Poor Mary-Anne. A Tale of the Last Century: by Elizabeth Hays Lanfear
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Whelan, Felicity James
October 08, 2019
In December 2015 a novel by Elizabeth Hays (c. 1765-1825) that has eluded scholars of women novelists of the 1790s for more than a century was finally discovered in the British Library. Fatal Errors was written in the late 1790s by the sister of Mary Hays, but not published until 1819 under her ...
Chawton House Library: Women's Novels 1-10
1st Edition
Edited
By Various
July 01, 2011
Contains the first ten books from the series....
Marmaduke Herbert; or, the Fatal Error: by Marguerite Blessington
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Schmid
August 07, 2018
In the early and mid-nineteenth century, Marguerite Blessington, who had been born in Ireland but spent most of her life in London, became a famous salonnière; she was generally regarded as an important contemporary author, but as no literary executor took care of her oeuvre posthumously, she ...
Discipline: by Mary Brunton
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivia Murphy
March 20, 2018
Discipline, the second novel by the Scottish writer Mary Brunton (1778-1818), was published in 1814. While less well known than its predecessor Self-Control (1811), it is nonetheless equally deserving of a central place in the canon of Romantic-era fiction. A wide-ranging novel, it shares many ...
Adelaide and Theodore: by Stephanie-Felicite De Genlis
1st Edition
By Gillian Dow
August 04, 2016
Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within the context of the late eighteenth-century debate on ...
Caroline of Lichtfield: by Isabelle de Montolieu
1st Edition
By Laura Kirkley
August 04, 2016
Thomas Holcroft’s 1786 translation of Isabelle de Montolieu’s novel is a textual encounter between a rather conventional Swiss woman and a British radical. Just as Montolieu did in her own translations, Holcroft reworked parts of the novel to make it more appealing to his intended audience....
Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale: by Sydney Owenson
1st Edition
By Jenny McAuley
August 04, 2016
This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owenson's seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four 'national tales'. Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social problems in Ireland, following the passing of the ...
Julia: by Helen Maria Williams
1st Edition
By Natasha Duquette
August 04, 2016
This critical edition of Julia is the first modern printing of a novel that blends the character development of a poet with critical reflections on social injustice....
Romance Readers and Romance Writers: by Sarah Green
1st Edition
By Christopher Goulding
August 04, 2016
This edition of Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) is the first modern scholarly publication of what is arguably Green's most famous novel. As with many of her other works, Green adopts numerous sophisticated methods to parody her contemporaries....
Self-Control: by Mary Brunton
1st Edition
By Anthony Mandal
August 04, 2016
Self-Control (1811) was a literary sensation, going into four editions in its first year. The first novelist to set her story against a strong Scottish background, Brunton set the scene for other writers such as Walter Scott. Jane Austen was also a fan, she read it at least twice, worrying that the...
Sketches of Irish Character: by Mrs S C Hall
1st Edition
By Marion Durnin
August 04, 2016
Born in Dublin into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Anna Maria Hall moved to London when she was fifteen where she became famous for her books, plays and travel writing. It was her book, Sketches of Irish Character (1829) which made her a household name. This modern critical edition is based on Hall's ...