New PDF release: The Literary Manuscripts and Letters of Hannah More

By Nicholas D. Smith

ISBN-10: 0754662705

ISBN-13: 9780754662709

the results of wide archival research, this meticulously researched e-book collects and describes for the 1st time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the distinguished Bluestocking author and Evangelical philanthropist Hannah extra (1745-1833). partaking within the ongoing restoration of eighteenth-century girls writers, Nicholas D. Smith's survey is an quintessential reference paintings not just for extra students yet for these getting to know the careers of a lot of her contemporaries. positive aspects comprise a longer narrative research of the manuscripts that plots More's participation within the manuscript tradition of the interval and contextualizes the person entries within the index; provenance information for the extra giant manuscript holdings in British and North American repositories; and identity of diverse autograph manuscripts and transcripts in private and non-private collections. greater than 1,500 letters in ninety five destinations in Britain and North the United States were inventoried and detailed dates and inner locators are provided whilst identified. More's letters, nearly all of that have by no means been released, are a mostly untapped resource of basic fabrics for students and scholars gaining knowledge of such assorted topics because the literary actions and evaluations of the Bluestocking circle, women's behavior and schooling, publishing and the booklet exchange, the nationwide debate over the abolition of the slave alternate, the increase of the Evangelical flow, the conservative response to the yank and French revolutions, and the Napoleonic wars.

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