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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
Chawton House Library: Women's Memoirs 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.
Readership:
Women's Studies, Literature, Theatre Studies, Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Romanticism, Travel Writing, Biography and Political History
Published titles:
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1) Women's Theatrical Memoirs
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By the close of the eighteenth century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. The texts brought together in this ten-volume facsimile collection present the lives of some of the most celebrated actresses of their day. As well as offering fascinating accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, these memoirs also provide revealing insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.
Features:
- 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
Contents
Part I
- Volume 1: Mary Robinson, Memoirs of the Late Mrs Robinson (1801)
- Volumes 2 & 3: James Boaden, The Life of Mrs Jordan (1831)
- Volumes 4 & 5: Thomas Campbell, Life of Mrs Siddons (1834)
Part II
- Volumes 6-8: Elizabeth Steele, The Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley (1787)
- Volume 9: Leah Sumbel, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Sumbel, Part I (1811)
- Volume 10: Leah Sumbel, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Sumbel, Part II (1811), [A Gentleman], Memoirs of George Anne Bellamy (1785)
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2) Women's Court and Society Memoirs
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These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.
Contents
Part I
- Volumes 1-2: [Lady Charlotte Bury], Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth (1838)
- Volumes 3-4: Catherine E Cary, Memoirs of Miss C E Cary (1825)
Part II
- Volume 5: Elizabeth Hervey, Life and Memoirs of Elizabeth Chudleigh (1789)
- Volume 6: Mary Anne Clarke, The Rival Princes; Or, A Faithful Narrative of Facts, Relating To Mrs M A Clarke's Political Acquaintance (1810)
- Volume 7: Pauline Adelaide Alexandre Panam, Memoirs of a Young Greek Lady (1823)
- Volumes 8 and 9: Elizabeth Craven, Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, Formerly Lady Craven (1826)
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Bibliographical information:
- Batchelor, Jennie, ed. Women's Theatrical Memoirs, 1610-1725. Series editor, Jennie Batchelor. Volume editors: Sue Mcpherson, Sharon M Setzer and Julia Swindells. 10 vols. Part I, vols. 1-5. Part II, vols. 6-10. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007-2008.
- Culley, Amy, ed. Women's Court and Society Memoirs. Edited by Amy Culley. 9 vols. Part I. Vols 1-4. Part II. Vols 5-9. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009-2010.
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