Chawton House Library

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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

Published titles

• Adelaide and Theodore
• Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale
• Julia
• Memoirs of Scandalous Women
• Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I
• Romance Readers and Romance Writers
• Strathallan
• The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade; a Modern Romance
• The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House
• The History of Ned Evans
• The Private History of the Court of England: by Sarah Green
• The Romance of Private Life
• The Soldier's Orphan
• The Victim of Fancy
• Translations and Continuations
• Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part I
• Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part II
• Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France, Part I
• Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France, Part II
• Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part I
• Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part II
• Women's Court and Society Memoirs, Part I
• Women's Court and Society Memoirs, Part II
• Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part I
• Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part II

Forthcoming titles

• Memoirs of Women Writers, Part II (December 2012)
• Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III (December 2013)
• The Citizen (November 2012)
• The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (November 2012)
• The Rash Resolve and Life's Progress (January 2013)
• Women's Travel Writings in Iberia (April 2013)
• Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I (April 2014)
• Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part II (April 2015)
• Women's Travel Writings in Scotland (2016)

Download leaflet pdfs

• Chawton House Library series leaflet

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