What Has Been. A Novel, by Eliza Kirkham Mathews
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. Simultaneously, it provides a new vantage-point for assessing obscure or long-forgotten novels. This volume will be of great interest to teachers and scholars of the long-eighteenth century and Romantic era, and on such far-ranging topics as the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, British Romanticism, feminism, women’s literature, the gothic, and the ‘novel of purpose’ or Jacobin/anti-Jacobin novel.
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What Has Been. A Novel, by Eliza Kirkham Mathews
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. Simultaneously, it provides a new vantage-point for assessing obscure or long-forgotten novels. This volume will be of great interest to teachers and scholars of the long-eighteenth century and Romantic era, and on such far-ranging topics as the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, British Romanticism, feminism, women’s literature, the gothic, and the ‘novel of purpose’ or Jacobin/anti-Jacobin novel.
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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. Simultaneously, it provides a new vantage-point for assessing obscure or long-forgotten novels. This volume will be of great interest to teachers and scholars of the long-eighteenth century and Romantic era, and on such far-ranging topics as the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, British Romanticism, feminism, women’s literature, the gothic, and the ‘novel of purpose’ or Jacobin/anti-Jacobin novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040399996
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/23/2025
Series: Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 236

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Bibliography

Chronology of Eliza Kirkham Mathews

A Note on the Text

What Has Been: A Novel

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)

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