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Fatal Errors; or Poor Mary-Anne. A Tale of the Last Century: by Elizabeth Hays Lanfear book cover

1st Edition

Fatal Errors; or Poor Mary-Anne. A Tale of the Last Century by Elizabeth Hays Lanfear

Edited By Timothy Whelan, Felicity James Copyright 2020
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge
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In December 2015 a novel by Elizabeth Hays (c. 1765-1825) that has eluded scholars of women novelists of the 1790s for more than a century was finally discovered in the British Library. Fatal Errors was written in the late 1790s by the sister of Mary Hays, but not published until 1819 under her married name, Lanfear, and has therefore been completely overlooked until now. There has been... Read more

Chronology

Introduction

Bibliography

Note on the Text

Text: Fatal Errors; or Poor Mary-Anne (1819)

Appendices

A. Elizabeth Hays’s Contributions to Mary Hays’s Letters and Essays, Moral, and Miscellaneous (1793)

1. No. X. Cleora, or the Misery attending Unsuitable Connections.

2. No. XI. Josepha, or the Pernicious Effects of Early Indulgence.

B. Selections from Elizabeth Hays Lanfear’s Letters to Young Ladies on Their Entrance into the World; to which are added Sketches from Real Life (1824)

1. INTRODUCTORY LETTER.

2. LETTER II. On the Motives for Female Improvement.

2. LETTER III. On the Motives for Female Improvement (continued).

3. LETTER VII. On the Single Life.

4. SKETCH I. Louisa the Indulged.

C. Letters of Elizabeth Hays Lanfear

1. Elizabeth Hays, Gainsford Street, to Mary Hays, 30 Kirby Street, Wednesday morning, undated [c. January 1796].

2. Elizabeth Hays, Chelmsford, Essex, to Mary Hays, 22 Hatton Street, Holborn, 4 February 1801.

3. Elizabeth Hays, Ingatestone, Essex, to Mary Hays, 9 St. George’s Place, Camberwell, 14 August 1803.

Notes

Biography

Timothy Whelan is Professor of English, Georgia Southern University, USA

Felicity James is Associate Professor in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature, University of Leicester, UK 

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