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‘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).

Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

"Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle (2011)
Journal Article
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.

Relating a life : Alicia LeFanu's Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan (2008)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.