Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840

Amy Culley is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln. She is the author of British Women’s Life Writing, 1760–1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration (Palgrave, 2014), co-editor with Daniel Cook of Women’s Life Writing, 1700–1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship (Palgrave, 2012) and editor of Women’s Court and Society Memoirs, volumes 1–4 (Pickering & Chatto, 2009).Anna M. Fitzer is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. She is editor of Memoirs of Women Writers Part I (Pickering & Chatto, 2012), a four-volume set in the Chawton House Library series incorporating Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Hannah More, and Some Account of Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer.

• ContentsNotes on ContributorsList of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Editing Women’s Writing, 1670–1840Amy Culley and Anna M. Fitzer2. An Ambitious and Quixotic Series: the Ever-Shifting Role of the Editor: Chawton House Library SeriesLorna J. Clark3. Editing Eliza Haywood’s The Female Spectator (1744–6): Making (and Unmaking) a Periodical ‘for Women’Kathryn R. King4. Mary Robinson’s Poetry and Questions of QualityDaniel Robinson5. Annotating Delariver Manley: Stripping Away Preconceptions of Gender and Genre Rachel Carnell6. Julie and Julia: Tracing Intertextuality in Helen Maria Williams’s NovelNatasha Duquette7. Romancing the Past: Women’s Historical Fiction, Editorial Pains and PracticesFiona Price8. A ‘Piece written by a Lady’: Gender, Anonymous Authorship and Editing The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House (1760)Jennie Batchelor and Megan Hiatt9. ‘Some uncalled-for revival of by-gone scandals’?: Editing Women’s Court MemoirsAmy Culley10. ‘Posthumous remains, family papers, and reminiscences sans fin’: Editing Women in the Chawton House Library SeriesAnna M. Fitzer11. Publishing Frances Burney’s Journals and Letters in Twenty-Five Volumes Peter Sabor12. ‘An Editor’s duty is indeed that of most danger’: the Rationale for A Digital Edition of Elizabeth Montagu’s LettersCaroline Franklin and Nicole PohlSelected Works Cited

"If the focus of Editing Women’s Writing, 1670–1840 is a little more delimited than its title suggests, its detailing of intriguing and invaluable editorial projects is itself a celebration of the Chawton House Library Series and of the ongoing project of recovering women writers from the archives of the past. Like the editorial projects it discusses, the volume itself contributes to this recovery project and to continuing consideration of how editors might best position themselves and their texts in order to transform women’s writing, in all its variability from the familiar to the fluid and challenging, for a modern-day readership. "- Sarah C.E. Ross , Victoria University Of Wellington