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Samuel Richardson’s Published Commentary on Clarissa, 1747-1765

Margaret Anne Doody

Samuel Richardson’s novel Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady (1747-8) has long been recognised as one of the world’s most significant literary achievements.

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Frances Burney: The Life in the Works

Margaret Anne Doody

Treating Frances Burney (1752-1840) with the seriousness usually reserved for later novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she…

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Jane Austen’s Names

Margaret Anne Doody

In Jane Austen’s works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose…

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Jane Austen’s Names: Riddles, Persons, Places

Margaret Anne Doody

In Jane Austen’s works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose…

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Frances Burney: The Life in the Works

Margaret Anne Doody (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

In this 1989 book, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she analyzes not only Frances Burney’s published novels, but her plays, fragments of novels, poems…

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Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays

This 1989 volume was created to mark the three-hundredth anniversary of Samuel Richardson’s birth, with fifteen essays, some illustrated, by contributors who investigate various aspects of the novelist’s work. This…

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Samuel Richardson’s Published Commentary on Clarissa, 1747-1765 Vol 1

Florian Stuber,Margaret Anne Doody

This three-volume set brings together all that Samuel Richardson himself published on the composition, printing and interpretation of Clarissa

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Samuel Richardson’s Published Commentary on Clarissa, 1747-1765 Vol 2

Florian Stuber,Margaret Anne Doody

This three-volume set brings together all that Samuel Richardson himself published on the composition, printing and interpretation of Clarissa

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Samuel Richardson’s Published Commentary on Clarissa, 1747-1765 Vol 3

Florian Stuber,Margaret Anne Doody

This three-volume set brings together all that Samuel Richardson himself published on the composition, printing and interpretation of Clarissa

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The Female Quixote: Or the Adventures of Arabella

Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote (1752), a parody of the style of Cervantes and much praised by Fielding, Richardson and Dr. Johnson, tells of the misadventures of the aristocratic Arabella, a devoted…

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Cecilia: or Memoirs of an Heiress

Fanny Burney

Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will take her surname. Fanny Burney’s unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired…

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The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been a continuous international best-seller, captivating children and adults alike with the charms of its heroine, Anne Shirley. This is…

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