Betty A. Schellenberg is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, where she is a founding member of the Print Culture group and winner of a Dean's Medal for Excellence. She has edited, for The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, the volume Correspondence Primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750-1754), which appeared in 2014. Her other books are The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2005), Reconsidering the Bluestockings (2003, co-edited with Nicole Pohl), Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel (1996, co-edited with Paul Budra) and The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775 (1998).

• Introduction: the literary coterie in the eighteenth-century media landscape; 1. Wrest Park and North End: two mid-century coteries; 2. Formation, fame, and patronage: the Montagu–Lyttelton coterie; 3. Identity and influence from coterie to print: Carter, Chapone, and the Shenstone–Dodsley collaboration; 4. Memorializing a coterie life in print: the case of William Shenstone; 5. 'This new species of mischief': Montagu, Johnson, and the quarrel over character; 6. Transmediations: marketing the coterie traveller; 7. Literary sociability in the eighteenth-century personal miscellany; Conclusion; Bibliography.

'Admirable in terms of scholarship, the book is based on extensive research in manuscript collections and in the periodicals and books of the 18th century …' J. T. Lynch, Choice

Betty A. Schellenberg is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, where she is a founding member of the Print Culture group and winner of a Dean's Medal for Excellence. She has edited, for The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, the volume Correspondence Primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750-1754), which appeared in 2014. Her other books are The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2005), Reconsidering the Bluestockings (2003, co-edited with Nicole Pohl), Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel (1996, co-edited with Paul Budra) and The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775 (1998).

• Introduction: the literary coterie in the eighteenth-century media landscape; 1. Wrest Park and North End: two mid-century coteries; 2. Formation, fame, and patronage: the Montagu–Lyttelton coterie; 3. Identity and influence from coterie to print: Carter, Chapone, and the Shenstone–Dodsley collaboration; 4. Memorializing a coterie life in print: the case of William Shenstone; 5. 'This new species of mischief': Montagu, Johnson, and the quarrel over character; 6. Transmediations: marketing the coterie traveller; 7. Literary sociability in the eighteenth-century personal miscellany; Conclusion; Bibliography.

'Admirable in terms of scholarship, the book is based on extensive research in manuscript collections and in the periodicals and books of the 18th century …' J. T. Lynch, Choice

Betty A. Schellenberg is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, where she is a founding member of the Print Culture group and winner of a Dean's Medal for Excellence. She has edited, for The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, the volume Correspondence Primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750-1754), which appeared in 2014. Her other books are The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2005), Reconsidering the Bluestockings (2003, co-edited with Nicole Pohl), Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel (1996, co-edited with Paul Budra) and The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775 (1998).

• Introduction: the literary coterie in the eighteenth-century media landscape; 1. Wrest Park and North End: two mid-century coteries; 2. Formation, fame, and patronage: the Montagu–Lyttelton coterie; 3. Identity and influence from coterie to print: Carter, Chapone, and the Shenstone–Dodsley collaboration; 4. Memorializing a coterie life in print: the case of William Shenstone; 5. 'This new species of mischief': Montagu, Johnson, and the quarrel over character; 6. Transmediations: marketing the coterie traveller; 7. Literary sociability in the eighteenth-century personal miscellany; Conclusion; Bibliography.

'Admirable in terms of scholarship, the book is based on extensive research in manuscript collections and in the periodicals and books of the 18th century …' J. T. Lynch, Choice