Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
The Victim of Fancy: by Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
1st Edition
By Daniel Cook
August 03, 2016
The Victim of Fancy was first published in December 1787 and, despite favourable reviews, has not been published since. Cook's new scholarly edition of this forgotten novel will be of paramount importance in allowing new insights into the form of the sentimental novel as it actually existed in the ...
Translations and Continuations: Riccoboni and Brooke, Graffigny and Roberts
1st Edition
By Marijn S Kaplan
August 03, 2016
This edition connects four female writers from two different countries, presenting the English translations of two of the most popular eighteenth-century French novels and a sequel to one of them....
Confessions of the Nun of St Omer: by Charlotte Dacre
1st Edition
By Lucy Cogan
February 24, 2016
Charlotte Dacre’s debut novel Confessions of the Nun of St Omer (1805) was a bestseller in its day, launching the career of a woman who would go on to become one of the nineteenth century’s most notorious female novelists. The work tells the story of the wilful Cazire, who recounts her passionate ...
Malvina: by Sophie Cottin
1st Edition
By Marijn S. Kaplan
July 27, 2015
Often linked to the works of early Romanticism, Sophie Cottin's Malvina (1803) was a bestselling sentimental novel. First published in France, the English translation by Elizabeth Gunning – a prolific novelist in her own right – allowed Cottin’s book to achieve success internationally. This is the ...