Memoirs of Women Writers

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Notes

1 Mary Hays quoted in Karen O'Brien, Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 209.

2 Anne Stott, Hannah More: The First Victorian, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, p. viii.

3 Juliette Atkinson, Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century ‘Hidden’ Lives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 discusses early approaches to biography in more detail.

4 G.H letter on ‘Monument to Mrs. Trimmer’, Gentleman's Magazine, 81, Part I, March 1811, 259.

5 Revolutionary Reviewing: Sarah Trimmer's Guardian of Education and the Cultural Politics of Juvenile Literature. An Index to The Guardian by Andrea Immel with an introduction by Mitzi Myers. Department of Special Collections, University Research Library. Los Angeles: University of California, 1990, p. vii.