As mentioned in my previous post on Sarah Scott, it is interesting to search the Godmersham Park Library 1818 catalogue for titles written by women, knowing that Jane Austen would have had access to them. So I have gone through the catalogue just to pull the names of these women writers, here listing them all, with hopes to eventually do a post on each (which might actually get done in these times of quarantine…).
It is quite an impressive list – novelists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, historians, essayists, translators, letter-writers! And while some of the works remain in the Knight Collection, many are Lost Sheep, our effort still to locate them. If you might have a copy of any work by any of these women with a Knight bookplate in them, please get in touch with us!
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- Austen, Jane (1775-1817) [of course!]
- Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
- Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1743-1825) [as A. Aikin, her maiden name]
- Bowdler, Jane (1743-1784)
- Brooke, Frances (1724-1789)
- Brunton, Mary (1778-1818)
- Burney, Frances (1752-1840)
- Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette Genest (1752-1822)
- Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
- Chapone, Hester (1727-1801)
- Cornwallis, Mary (1758-1836):
- Craven, Elizabeth Craven, Baroness (1750-1828)
- Dixon, Sarah (1671/2-1765)
- Dobson, Susannah (d. 1795) [as translator]
- Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849)
- Elie de Beaumont, Anne-Louise Morin-Dumesnil (1729-1783)
- Elwood, Anne Katharine (1796-1873)
- Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) [as translator]
- Gardiner, Jane (1758-1840)
- Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de (1746-1830)
- Graffigny, (Françoise d’Issembourg d’Happoncourt), Mme de (1695-1758)
- Grant, Anne (1755-1838)
- Hays, Mary (1759-1843)
- Haywood, Eliza Fowler (1693-1756)
- Lee, Harriet (1757-1851)
- Lee, Sophia (1750-1824)
- Lennox, Charlotte (ca. 1730-1804) [as translator]
- Macaulay, Catharine (1731-1791)
- Maintenon, Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de (1635-1719)
- Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of (1660-1744)
- Masters, Mary (fl. 1733-1755)
- Meades, Anna (b. ca. 1734)
- Montagu, Elizabeth Robinson (1718-1800)
- Montolieu, Isabelle de (1751-1832)
- More, Hannah (1745-1833)
- Orléans, Charlotte-Elizabeth, duchesse d’ (1652-1722)
- Parry, Catherine (d. 1788)
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch; Thrale, Hester Lynch (1741-1821)
- Porter, Jane (1776-1850)
- Radcliffe, Ann Ward (1764-1823)
- Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mézières (1713-1792)
- Scott, Sarah (1723-1795)
- Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de (1629-1696)
- Smith, Charlotte Turner (1749-1806)
- West, Jane (1758-1852)
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There are several titles in the catalogue with no author listed. Here are two novels – could either of these been written by a woman? (more on these two books in a future post)
- Edward. A novel. Dedicated (by permission) to Her Majesty. London, 1774.
- The correspondents, an original novel; in a series of letters. A new edition. London, 1775.
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