By the close of the eighteenth century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection presents the live

Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.

Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have be

Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV).

Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.