The story of a woman who is born in poverty and later becomes, in turn, a prostitute, thief, wife, and finally, rich penitent.

From ‘Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?’ to ‘Which important Austen characters never speak?’ the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden…

This book draws on the author’s column in the Guardian, ‘Elements of Fiction’. Using examples from well-known recent novels, it examines the techniques by which fiction works. It will widen…

In Jane Austen’s first published novel, her portrait of two heroines’ parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope offers a powerful analysis of how women were shaped by the claustrophobic…

The memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had…

This volume documents the literary controversy and debate over Samuel Richardson’s novel, Pamela , published in 1741

In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as…

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