The Pickering Masters
The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II
1st Edition
By Joanne Shattock
July 01, 2006
Features Elizabeth Gaskell's work. This work brings together her journalism, her shorter fiction, which was published in various collections during her lifetime, her early personal writing, including a diary written between 1835 and 1838 when she was a young mother, her five full-length novels and ...
The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I
1st Edition
By Linda K Hughes
June 23, 2006
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer....
The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part II
1st Edition
By Stuart Curran
June 01, 2006
Charlotte Turner Smith held a central position during the formative years of the British Romantic period. Smith's work includes eleven novels and two fictional adaptations from the French. This edition reveals the extent to which Smith's work in this form constitutes as significant an achievement ...
The Selected Works of Delarivier Manley
1st Edition
By W R Owens
July 01, 2005
A modern critical edition of the works of Delarivier Manley, providing complete texts of all her works, reset and with annotations. It includes findings on Manley's work as a political propagandist and scholarship on her part in the history of the novel....
The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters
1st Edition
By Andrew Gasson
June 01, 2005
The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality....
The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part I
1st Edition
By Stuart Curran
June 01, 2005
Reveals the extent to which Charlotte Turner Smith's work constitutes as significant an achievement as her poetry, representing the turbulent decade of the 1790s on its social and political, as well as literary, planes with an unparalleled richness of detail and an unblinkered vision....
Harriet Martineau's Writing on British History and Military Reform
1st Edition
By Deborah Logan
May 01, 2005
This edition of Martineau's history consists primarily of the History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854, as well as the introductory History of England , AD 1800 to 1815. Martineau’s work thus encompasses British history from the turn of the nineteenth century through the...
Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe, Part I
1st Edition
By J A Downie
January 15, 2005
Includes ten volumes, which are suitable for Defoe scholars and academics of eighteenth-century history, religion and literature. This set offers readers texts and a wealth of editorial matter, including introductions, explanatory notes and a consolidated index to the ten volumes....
Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II
1st Edition
By P N Furbank
December 15, 2004
The publication of the 44-volume Works of Daniel Defoe continues with this collection of Defoe's satirical poetry and fantasy writings, and writings on the supernatural....
The Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne
1st Edition
By Terry L Meyers
November 01, 2004
These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne....
The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli
1st Edition
By Ann Hawkins
August 01, 2004
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was one of the most important political figures in 19th century Britain. However, before rising to political prominence he had established himself as a major literary figure. This set takes a critical look at Disraeli's early work....
Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793–1810
1st Edition
By Lynda Pratt
May 25, 2004
This edition of Robert Southey's early poetry seeks to restore Southey the poet to his place at the centre of late 18th and early 19th century British literary culture. This collection of his poetical works critically reassesses Southey's epics and romances....