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These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the
lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from
the West Country.
These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the
lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from
the West Country.
In December 2015 a novel by Elizabeth Hays (c. 1765-1825) that has
eluded scholars of women novelists of the 1790s for more than a
century was finally discovered in the British Library. Fatal Errors
was written in the late 1790s by the sister of Mary Hays, but not
published until 1819 under her married name, Lanfear, and has
therefore been completely overlooked until now. There has been
considerable interest in the missing novel, since we know that Mary
Wollstonecraft read and commented on a version of the manuscript in
1796, but it was presumed never to have been published. Now this
missing piece of the conversation of the Hays-Wollstonecraft-Godwin
circle has been located this modern critical edition of Fatal
Errors contributes both to our knowledge of this network of radical
writers and thinkers, and to our understanding of the trajectory of
women's fiction and the Jacobin novel.
This is a scholarly edition of the public and private works of a
remarkable circle of eighteen nonconformist women and two
Anglicans, including Anne Steele (1717-78), Mary Steele
(1753-1813), Mary Scott (1751-93), Elizabeth Coltman (1761-1838)
and Maria Grace Saffery (1772-1858). It combines new editions of
their previously published works with their unpublished hymns,
poems and letters. The edition will be of interest to students of
eighteenth century studies, women's studies and dissenting
religious history.
This is a scholarly edition of the public and private works of a
remarkable circle of women writers. The collection features ten
nonconformist women including Anne Steele, Mary Steele, Mary Scott
and Maria Grace Saffery, combining new editions of their previously
published works with unpublished hymns, poems and letters newly
transcribed from manuscripts held at the Angus Library, Oxford. The
edition will be of interest to those studying eighteenth century
studies, women's writing and history and religious history.
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