Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776–80) and notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779–80), Mary Darby Robinson had to write to s

This volume takes a new approach to the study of late eighteenth-century British actresses by examining the significance of leading actresses’ autobiographica

Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postco