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 It combines new editions of their previously published works with their unpublished hymns, poems and letters.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Mary Steele, Mary Scott and Maria Grace Saffery, combining new editions of their previously published works with unpublished hymns, poems and letters newly transcribed from manuscripts held at the Angus Library, Oxford.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.