Chawton House Library

Series Editors: Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave
Editorial Board: Isobel Grundy (Chair), Jennie Batchelor, Emma Clery,Gillian Dow and Helen Scott

Chawton House Library (www.chawtonhouse.org) is an independent research library and study centre which focuses on women’s writing in English from 1600 to 1830. It is accommodated in the Elizabethan manor house that once belonged to Jane Austen’s brother, in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, England. The library’s main aim is to promote and facilitate study in the field of early women’s writing. Pickering & Chatto is proud to be participating in a major joint venture to make available many of these rare texts in new scholarly editions.

The series is organised into three areas: Women’s Memoirs, Women’s Travel Writings and Women’s Novels. The Memoirs and Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in women’s history.

In addition the Chawton House Library Series will include reset editions of rare and important novels by women authors, complete with extensive introductory matter and endnotes.

All texts are republished in full
Selected for their rarity, the texts are drawn from Chawton House’s unparalleled collection
Most of the texts included have never before been republished
Each set in the series includes a substantial general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in their final volume
Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original

If you are interested in being involved in the series please contact one of the Series Editors: Dr Stephen Bending (s.d.bending@soton.ac.uk) or Dr Stephen Bygrave (s.j.bygrave@soton.ac.uk)

Readership

Women’s Studies, Literature, Theatre Studies, Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Romanticism, Travel Writing, Biography and Political History

Editorial board

Stephen Bending is at the University of Southampton
Stephen Bygrave is at the University of Southampton
Jennie Batchelor is at the University of Kent
Isobel Grundy is at the University of Alberta
Emma Clery is at the University of Southampton
Gillian Dow is the Chawton Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Southampton
Helen Scott is the Librarian at Chawton House

Published titles

Forthcoming titles

Memoirs of Scandalous Women (2011)
Women's Court and Society Memoirs, Part I (January 2009)
Women's Court and Society Memoirs, Part II (2010)
Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part I (April 2009)
Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part II (April 2010)

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