The Pickering Masters

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Our highly prestigious series The Pickering Masters is home to some of the most important scholarly publishing of recent years. The series collects the works and correspondence of major figures in the history of ideas and literature. Full scholarly apparatus accompanies the texts.

The Pickering Masters carry the following editorial features:

General Introduction

Each edition in The Pickering Masters series includes a general introduction by the General Editor or Editors of the edition. This draws together the themes of all the works included in the edition, presents the editorial rationale behind the publication and gives details of the editorial practices and features of the edition.

Chronology

Pickering Masters include a chronology of the significant events in the life of an author, including dates of publication and external events which had a bearing on their work.

Introductory Note

Each new work within an edition is preceded by an appropriate short introductory note or headnote, placing the text within context, and including details of its publication or the history of its inception, its significance and influence plus further details of the author relevant to the individual text.

Textual Editing

The texts for each Pickering Master are carefully chosen from amongst the most representative lifetime editions. In general, the earliest available text is usually chosen. The texts are studied closely and typographical errors or superseded conventions are silently corrected and explained in the appropriate editorial matter. Details of the edition used and its source are also given and the original pagination is indicated in the retypeset page for ease of cross-reference.

Textual Variants

Where there was more than one edition of a work within the author’s lifetime, a list of significant variants is provided. These appear at the back of each volume with an appropriate page indication and details of the edition in which they appeared. They are accompanied by a short introductory passage indicating the editions considered and possible reasons for the variants.

Bibliography

A list of all the significant publications cited or referred to in the edition is given where appropriate.

Consolidated Index

Each Pickering Master has a consolidated index for the entire edition in the final volume of the work. This includes indexing of all the editorial material and the text where appropriate.

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Published titles

• An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy
• Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire
• Harriet Martineau’s Writing on British History and Military Reform
• Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings
• Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793–1810
• Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part I
• Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II
• Selected Political Writings of John Thelwall
• Selected Works of Delarivier Manley
• Selected Works of Robert Owen
• Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt
• Selected Writings of William Hazlitt
• The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau
• The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton
• The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin
• The Collected Short Stories of George Moore
• The Complete Plays of Frances Burney
• The Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot
• The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson
• The Correspondence of Dr William Hunter
• The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636–1691
• The Diaries of Elizabeth Inchbald
• The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli
• The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Volume 1
• The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay
• The Letters of Francis Jeffrey to Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
• The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson
• The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft
• The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley
• The Novels of Daniel Defoe Part II
• The Novels of Daniel Defoe, Part I
• The Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe
• The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin
• The Public Face of Wilkie Collins
• Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe Part II
• Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe, Part I
• The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765–1820
• The Social Problem Novels of Frances Trollope
• The Spanish Gypsy by George Eliot
• The Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne
• The Works of Aphra Behn
• Works of Aphra Behn Volume 1
• Works of Aphra Behn Volume 2
• Works of Aphra Behn Volume 3
• Works of Aphra Behn Volume 4
• Works of Aphra Behn Volume 5
• Works of Aphra Behn Volume 6
• Works of Aphra Behn Volume 7
• The Works of Charles Babbage
• The Works of Charles Darwin
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 1
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 10
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 11
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 12
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 13
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 14
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 15
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 16
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 17
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 18
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 19
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 2
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 20
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 21
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 22
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 23
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 24
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 25
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 26
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 27
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 28
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 29
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 3
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 4
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 5
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 6
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 7
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 8
• The Works of Charles Darwin: Volume 9
• The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part I
• The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part II
• The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part III
• The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I
• The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II
• The Works of Irving Fisher
• The Works of Maria Edgeworth
• The Works of Maria Edgeworth, Part I
• The Works of Maria Edgeworth, Part II
• The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft
• The Works of Nikolai D Kondratiev
• The Works of Robert Boyle
• The Works of Robert Boyle, Part I
• The Works of Robert Boyle, Part II
• The Works of Thomas De Quincey
• Works of Thomas de Quincey, Part I
• Works of Thomas de Quincey, Part II
• Works of Thomas de Quincey, Part III
• The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus
• William Cobbett: Selected Writings
• Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I
• Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part II

Forthcoming titles

• Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811–1838 (2011)
• The Collected Works of Ann Yearsley (December 2013)
• The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family (December 2010)
• The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Volume 2 (2009)
• The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Volume 3 (2010)
• The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Volume 4 (2011)
• The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Volume 5 (2012)
• The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Volume 6 (2013)
• The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Volume 7 (2013)
• The Plays of William Godwin (2010)
• The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (2011)
• The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton (June 2009)
• The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (June 2009)
• The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb (April 2009)
• The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I (June 2009)
• The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II (June 2010)

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