10271-1 20th Century Cleis Press

Cleis Press

Zimmern states she had access to an unplublished memoir of Edgeworth written by her stepmother

first published in 1809

and a bonus disc that includes a documentary on the series

Folio Press

10271-1 20th Century Cleis PressEdited by Paula R. Backsheider and Hope D. Cotton. Frances Brooke [1724 1789] was a highly successful writer, working in various formats and advancing the novel as a respected form. This novel, Brooke's third, was originally published in 1777 when women authors abounded. She based this plot on courtship novels like those by Frances Burney and Eliza Haywood, but differed in that the heroine of this story, Maria Villiers, is one of the first female