When Clara Reeve died in 1807, the Gentleman's Magazine paid a dignified tribute to the well-known writer. "Her works," read the notice, "discover her to have cultivated useful knowledge with considerable success; and to have applied that knowledge...

The recovery of the work of eighteenth-century women authors, begun in earnest in the late 1970s, has been increasingly perceived as important over the years. Indeed, now we can even trace a history of the development of this recovery work. The novels by...

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