1st Edition

What Has Been, A Novel by Eliza Kirkham Mathews

Edited By Jonathan Sadow, Elizabeth Neiman Copyright 2026
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

What Has Been, originally published in 1801, is an affecting, lively, and accessible read for scholars and students of the long eighteenth century. This critical edition includes an extensive introduction, notes, and appendices. Eliza Kirkham Mathews’ portrait of a struggling female novelist connects and also distinguishes What Has Been from novels by now-canonical female authors of this period.... Read more

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Bibliography

Chronology of Eliza Kirkham Mathews

A Note on the Text

WHAT HAS BEEN, A NOVEL

Vol. I.

WHAT HAS BEEN, A NOVEL

Vol. II.

Appendix A: Excerpts from Other Works

Appendix B:  Contemporary Reviews

Appendix C:  Anne Jackson Mathews, from Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian (1838)

Appendix D: Virginia Woolf, Sterne Ghost (1925)

Biography

Jonathan Sadow is an Associate Professor of English and also associated with Women’s and Gender Studies at SUNY Oneonta. Elizabeth Neiman is an Associate Professor of English and also director of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maine.