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  • The Fenwick Letters: A Transnational Feminist Life Reconstructed, Volume I

    1797-1821

    by Eliza Fenwick ...
    Series Book 1 - EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS
    The first of a two-volume edition of The Fenwick Letters covers 1797 to 1821, a period that marked the initial phase of Eliza Fenwick’s transnational odyssey, as she transformed from promising author to conservative schoolmistress and savvy businesswoman; from traveling in radical circles in London to establishing herself in colonial slave-dependent Bridgetown, Barbados; and from wife of radical ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Secresy - Second Edition

    by Eliza Fenwick ...
    Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Secresy

    Or, Ruin on the Rock

    by Eliza Fenwick ...
    Fans of Jane Austen's work will love this gripping novel from Eliza Fenwick, an early feminist thinker who was friends with Mary Shelley and several other important writers of the era. Secresy follows the unusual friendship between Caroline Ashburn and Sibella Valmont, both of whom have been negatively impacted by the constraints society places on women. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Bad Family

    And Other Stories

    by Eliza Fenwick ...
    Part of a series for younger readers called The Dumpy Books, this collection of short stories offers a fascinating glimpse into the manners and mores of children and families at the dawn of the twentieth century. Fans of mock-didactic fiction such as Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events will feel right at home. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich

    by Martin Levy ...
    In eighteenth-century England the aristocracy dominated the imagination, their exploits -- and misdeeds -- discussed, debated, and gossiped about in the salons and parlors of London. Now author Martin Levy vividly re-creates one of the most shocking and scandalous events of the period, in a riveting true tale of passion, obsession, murder, and courtroom drama.On a spring evening in the year 1779, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Tailor of Gloucester

    by Beatrix Potter ...
    Series series Children's Classics
    In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester. He sat in the window of a little shop in Westgate Street, cross-legged on a table, from morning till dark. All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippeted, piecing out his satin and pompadour, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • Elizabeth Is Missing

    One of the Eighteenth Century's Greatest Mysteries—Solved!

    by Lillian de la Torre ...
    The true story of the eighteenth-century English maidservant at the center of a fascinating criminal mystery.On New Year's Day, 1753, Elizabeth Canning disappeared. An eighteen-year-old girl, she was unremarkable in every respect, from her appearance to her disposition, but she was about to become the most famous person in London. When she reappeared one month later, starving and ill, she claimed ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Joseph Andrews and Shamela

    by Henry Fielding ...
    Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding's first full-length novel, depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill, a much-put-upon foundling girl, and Parson Adams, a man often duped and humiliated, but still a model of Christian charity. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Teenage Writings

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature alike; what she read, she ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Joseph Andrews and Shamela

    by Henry Fielding ...
    The first novel of English magistrate Henry Fielding, "Joseph Andrews" was written in 1742 as a complete extension of the author's pamphlet "Shamela." The latter contains an impressively coarse parody of "Pamela," the Samuel Richardson novel that rewards a servant girl with marriage for protecting her virtue. Shamela, however, utilizes a coy and artificial modesty to procure for herself a husband ... Read more

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  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Janet Todd ...
    The combination of Mary Wollstonecraft works, with her efforts to live a revolutionary inner and outer life has no equal. In her richly detailed, all-encompassing biography of the first major feminist in England, Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd highlights her intellectual and sexual dilemmas, her glamorous and tumultuous life and loves.Since the first publication of Mary Wollstonecraft: A ... Read more

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  • The Prince's Mistress, Perdita

    A Life of Mary Robinson

    by Hester Davenport ...
    Mary Robinson, nicknamed 'Perdita' by the Prince of Wales after her role on the London stage, was a woman in whom showmanship and reckless behaviour contrasted with romantic sensibility and radical thinking. Born in Bristol in 1758, she moved to London with her family at a young age and was trained by Garrick for the theatre. After a royal command performance as Perdita in "The Winter's Tale", she ... Read more

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