All Outputs (14)

‘Start not, gentle reader!’: Re-reading Alicia LeFanu’s Helen Monteagle (1818) (2021)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. (2021). ‘Start not, gentle reader!’: Re-reading Alicia LeFanu’s Helen Monteagle (1818). Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, 94-116. https://doi.org/10.18573/romtext.105

This article is the first to focus upon Helen Monteagle (1818), a novel written by Alicia LeFanu and the second of six works of fiction she is known to have published between 1816 and 1826. In part an act of recovery, the article explores Helen Monte... Read More about ‘Start not, gentle reader!’: Re-reading Alicia LeFanu’s Helen Monteagle (1818).

Women writers and the nation’s past 1790-1860: empathetic histories: by Mary Spongberg, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, viii + 235 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-35-001672-9 (2019)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2020). Women writers and the nation’s past 1790-1860: empathetic histories: by Mary Spongberg, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, viii + 235 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-35-001672-9. Journal of gender studies, 29(2), 235-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2019.1694320

Eugenia and Adelaide, a novel (2019)
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Sheridan, F. (2019). A. M. Fitzer (Ed.), Eugenia and Adelaide, a novel. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429054549

Frances Sheridan's Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first novel of parental tyranny, infidelity, kidnap, blackmail, and violence played out over two volumes against the backdrop of continental Europe. The friendship of Eugenia and Adelaide endu... Read More about Eugenia and Adelaide, a novel.

Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840 (2018)
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Culley, A., & Fitzer, A. M. (Eds.). (2018). Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840. Routledge

This edited volume is the first to reflect on the theory and practice of editing women’s writing of the 18th century. The list of contributors includes experts on the fiction, drama, poetry, life-writing, diaries and correspondence of familiar and le... Read More about Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840.

Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge (2018)
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Fitzer, A. M. (2018). Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge. Romanticism, 24(2), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2018.0371

This article focuses upon Alicia LeFanu (fl. 1809–36), author of several poems, six multi-volume novels, a critical biography of her grandmother, Frances Sheridan, and articles for the Court Magazine. Descended from an eminent literary family, and si... Read More about Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge.

Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan (2013)
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Fitzer, A. M. (2013). Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan. Women's Writing, 20(1), 64-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2013.754258

This article adopts a literal and metaphorical conceptualization of progeny to explore influence in relation to the works of the novelist and dramatist Frances Sheridan (1724-66) and her youngest daughter Elizabeth Sheridan, afterwards LeFanu (1758-1... Read More about Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan.

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839) (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M., & Walker, G. L. (Eds.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839). Routledge

This book is about Mrs. Hannah More, who had acted as a controversial patron to Ann Yearsley, and had used her own reputation as a poet in support of the abolitionist cause. It is the collaborative effort of Roberts, Bickersteth and Seeley that testi... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839).

Memoirs of Women Writers Part I, Volume 1: Alicia LeFanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan (1824) (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M. (Ed.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers Part I, Volume 1: Alicia LeFanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan (1824). Pickering & Chatto

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I (2011)
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(2011). A. M. Fitzer (Ed.), Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I. Routledge

This book is about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It is a principal source of reference for the work she undertook as an author, philanthropist and pioneer in the promotion and institution of educational opportunities for impoverished ch... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I.

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 4. [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume II (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M., & Luria Walker, G. (Eds.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 4. [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume II. Routledge

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This book is the second volume about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It contains selected content on her life and writings with original letters, her meditations and prayers for impoverished children in the early nineteenth... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 4. [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume II.

"Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M. (2011). "Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 38(2), 26-37. https://doi.org/10.7227/nctf.38.2.5

This article aims to give Alicia Sheridan some share of the limelight so far afforded Richard Brinsley and, more recently, their mother, Frances Sheridan. The article examines for the first time Alicia Sheridan's contribution to the enthusiasm for pr... Read More about "Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle.

Strathallan (1816), by Alicia LeFanu (2009)
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(2009). A. M. Fitzer (Ed.), Strathallan (1816), by Alicia LeFanu. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315649252

© Anna M. Fitzer 2008. All rights reserved. A novel, which addresses central themes of adultery, obsession and inheritance. It follows the fortunes of Matilda Melbourne who displays virtue, delicacy and an unwavering commitment to the sometimes ruthl... Read More about Strathallan (1816), by Alicia LeFanu.

Relating a life : Alicia LeFanu's Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan (2008)
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Fitzer, A. M. (2008). Relating a life : Alicia LeFanu's Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan. Women's Writing, 15(1), 32-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699080701871427

Since its publication in 1824, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan has remained the only biography of one of the eighteenth century's most successful women writers. It has also endured as the most wellknown of the writings of its... Read More about Relating a life : Alicia LeFanu's Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan.

Mrs Sheridan's active demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats (2003)
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Fitzer, A. M. (2003). Mrs Sheridan's active demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 18(1), 39-62. https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2003.6

This article examines the ways in which Frances Sheridan, matriarch to one of Ireland's most significant literary families, singularly asserted her contribution to writing after Richardson in her successful and enduringly popular novel, Memoirs of Mi... Read More about Mrs Sheridan's active demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats.