This scholarly edition presents for the first time all of the known surviving letters of British novelist Sarah Harriet Burney (1772-1884). The overwhelming maj

This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the

On the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the writer Frances Burney (1752–1840), a window to her memory was placed in the arched recess of s

‘First letters’ can be understood in various ways: as the first letters written by a person, such as the letters of children, or of drafts which were preser

Spectral and monstrous mothers populate the cultural and literary landscape of the eighteenth century, overturning scholarly assumptions about this being an era