This scholarly edition presents for the first time all of the known surviving letters of British novelist Sarah Harriet Burney (1772-1884). The overwhelming maj

This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the

On the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the writer Frances Burney (1752–1840), a window to her memory was placed in the arched recess of s

‘First letters’ can be understood in various ways: as the first letters written by a person, such as the letters of children, or of drafts which were preser