London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition. ESTC T115675; NCBEL II, 995. The first novel by Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), the sister of novelist Henry Fielding. In her Advertisement to the Reader, Fielding justifies her authorship - a profession not considered suitable for a well-bred woman - as necessary because.....
London: Printed by Hughes and Robinson, 1848. First edition. OCLC records four copies (Duke, Columbia and London Library). ¶ An elaborate attempt to defend a literal interpretation of the Bible in the form of an eccentric attack on Charles Empson, who had apparently traveled to Egypt and had written about.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1877. First edition. BAL 23455. ¶ The third book by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894), a long poem contrasting a maiden and a lady, with obvious references to the pitfalls of marriage and the plight of unmarried women. Two Women was originally serialized in two issues of.....
London: Printed for J. and A. Ach, 1816. Second edition, enlarged; the first edition was published in 1813. ODNB; Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1788-1856) visited the famous abbey Port-Royal in France, where she was attracted to the serious study, Jansenist piety, their theories of philosophy.....
Hartford: Seldon & Goodwin, Printers, 1815. First edition. BAL 17615; American Bibliography 35937; Stoddard & Whitesell 1111. The uncommon first book by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865), a substantial collection of poems and short essays which foreshadowed her career as one of the most popular and prolific American literary women of.....
Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke, (1889). First edition. OCLC 20927090 records five copies (HEH, Chicago, Harvard, NYPL and Brown). A collection of 22 short comedies by Frances Aymar Mathews (c.1865-1925), New York novelist and playwright. See Wright III, 3641-43 for three other work by Mathews.
Dublin: Printed for C. Lewis, [1805]. Stated "Third Edition" on the title-page. See Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 1809-1828; not in NCBEL. In 1804, Miss Sydney Owenson (1775/6-1859), aspiring Irish novelist, poet and socialite (and later Lady Morgan) became embroiled in pamphlet war that began with the publication of Familiar Epistles.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 8(a); NCBEL III, 364. An uncommon work by Scottish poet and playwright Joanne Baillie (1762-1851), the stories of several legendary historical figures told in verse, with extensive scholarly and historical notes. William Wallace.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1766. First edition. ESTC T71399; Sabin 78356 (American edition); Raven, British Fiction 1750-1770, 1038. A sequel to the popular novel A Description of Millenium Hall (1762), the story of an ideal community run by hard-working women, written by Sarah Scott with her friend Barbara Montagu.....
A fine, small amateur oil painting of a house on Orr's Island, Maine, that was the setting for Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Maine Coast, written when she lived in Brunswick in the 1850s; it was published by Ticknor and Fields in.....
Frankfort: Printed for Charles Jugel, at the German and Foreign Library, 1837. First separate edition. NCBEL III, 1289; OCLC records three copies (Sutro, Harvard and Toronto); COPAC adds three (BL, Senate House and V. & A.). An interesting German edition of the chapters about Germany from Anna Jameson's Visits and.....
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern.....
Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale”; “Sonnet sur l’oiseau du.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Second edition, published the same year as the first, but under a different title. Colbert; ODNB; NCBEL III, 1288; not in Wolff, Block or Garside, Raven and Schöwerling. A novel in the form of a travel diary by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) which she states in.....
London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1833. First and only edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 196. One of three European travel narratives by Elizabeth Strutt (circa 1785-1867), a prolific novelist, whose publishers included the Minerva Press. Her travel writings were representative of the new class of cultural tourists, who descended on.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. First edition. Colbert; Goldsmiths'- Kress 21406.4. A comprehensive work on the Isle of Man, its topography, history, mythology, archeology, ruins, commerce, agriculture, rents, salaries for servants (£5-£7 per annum, depending on experience) and the cost of port and wine. Mrs.....
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1818. Second edition, considerably revised; the first was published in 1813. Between 1803 and 1805, Johanna Schopenhauer (1766-1838) traveled extensively with her family in England and Scotland. She is known today primarily as the mother of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), but in her time she.....
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. Second edition, first published in 1833. Colbert; Robinson, pages 189-90; ODNB. Julia Pardoe (1806-1862), an aspiring novelist and poet, traveled to Portugal in 1832 for her health and wrote this engaging travel narrative about her experiences there. It combines the descriptions and stories behind the.....
London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824. First edition. Pine-Coffin 792-8; Colbert. The first travelogue by Catherine Govion Broglio Solari (circa 1755-1844), an entertaining narrative about Italy by an author whose biography is filled with so many inconsistencies and ruses that fact and fiction become difficult to differentiate.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First edition. Colbert; ODNB. One of three travelogues by Scottish novelist Elizabeth Isabella Spence (1768-1832), written in 32 letters dedicated to fellow Scottish novelist, Jane Porter. Spence was a self-sufficient woman, who from an early age supported herself by writing.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. First edition. In 1783, Mary Berry (1763-1852), author and friend and editor of Horace Walpole, went on the Grand Tour of Europe with her father and sister Agnes, and returned there, particularly to France, many times. Her richly woven Comparative View represents.....
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. First edition. ESTC T62060; Colbert; Robinson, pages 290-91; NCBEL III, 759. The only venture into travel writing by the poet and novelist Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), a narrative of her European sojourn in 1794 with her journalist husband William. It began as.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1820. First edition. Colbert; Pine-Coffin 819-3; Robinson, pages 44-45; ODNB. A travel narrative revealing of the adventurous and fearless nature of its author, Maria Graham (1785-1842). In the summer of 1819, she, her husband, and the artist.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese and Orme, 1805. First edition. Pine-Coffin 778-7; Colbert; ODNB. Novelist and poet Cornelia Knight (1757-1837) lived for several years in the 1790s in Rome and other parts of Italy, where she mastered numerous languages, drawing, painting and writing, the latter which she put to.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Colbert; ODNB; Sabin 18640; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 2, 16. Frances Wright (1785-1852), also known as Fanny Wright and later as Frances D’Arusmont, traveled to America in 1818 with the intention of observing and writing about the.....