1st Edition

Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois

Edited By Lucy Cogan Copyright 2022
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois, published in 1770, is an entertaining and frequently shocking tale of a young woman’s efforts to regain her position in high society after her aristocratic father’s abandonment of and denial of marriage to her mother. The two-volume work is a thinly-veiled fictionalisation of Du Bois’s eventful personal history and the novel represents just one prong of... Read more
Introduction

Bibliography

A Brief Chronology of Dorothea Du Bois and the Contested Inheritance of 6th Earl of Anglesey’s Estate

Note on the Text 

Theodora, a Novel, Volume I

Theodora, a Novel, Volume 2

Appendix A: "A True Tale" from Poems on Several Occasions

Appendix B: The Case of Ann Countess of Anglesey

Notes

Biography

Lucy Cogan is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. She has published a range of articles on William Blake and women’s writing in the long-eighteenth century, and produced a scholarly edition of Charlotte Dacre’s first novel, The Nun of St. Omer, for Routledge. Her forthcoming monograph is entitled, William Blake and the Failure of Prophecy.