Chawton House Library

Series Editors: Stephen Bending, Stephen Bygrave and Jennie Batchelor
Editorial Board: Isobel Grundy (Chair), Jennie Batchelor, Gillian Dow, Emma Clery, Jacqui Grainger 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 organized 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
Gillian Dow is at the University of Southampton
Isobel Grundy is at the University of Alberta
Emma Clery is at the University of Southampton
Jacqui Grainger is the Librarian at Chawton House
Helen Scott is at Oxford University Library Services

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