Editing Women’s Writing, 1670–1840

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: editing women’s writing, 1670–1840
2 An ambitious and quixotic series: the ever-shifting role of the editor and the Chawton House Library Series
3 Editing Eliza Haywood’s The Female Spectator (1744–1746): making (and unmaking) a periodical ‘for women’
4 Mary Robinson’s poetry and questions of quality
5 Annotating Delarivier Manley: stripping away preconceptions of gender and genre
6 Julie and Julia: tracing intertextuality in Helen Maria Williams’s novel
7 Romancing the past: women’s historical fiction, editorial pains and practices
8 A ‘Piece written by a Lady’: gender, anonymous authorship and editing The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House (1760)
9 ‘Some uncalled-for revival of by-gone scandals’?: editing women’s court memoirs
10 ‘Posthumous remains, family papers, and reminiscences sans fin’: editing women in the Chawton House Library Series
11 Publishing Frances Burney’s journals and letters in twenty-five volumes
12 ‘An Editor’s duty is indeed that of most danger’: the rationale for a digital edition of Elizabeth Montagu’s letters
Selected works cited
Index