Theodora, a Novel - By Dorothea Du Bois

This scholarly edition of Du Bois's 1770 novel, Theodora, A Novel, introduces readers to a unique voice in women's writing of the eighteenth century that has been undeservedly dismissed by literary history for far too long.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A brief chronology of Dorothea Du Bois and the contested inheritance of 6th Earl of Anglesey’s Estate
A note on the text
THEODORA, A NOVEL
Vol. I. 1
THEODORA, A NOVEL
Vol. II. 85
Appendix A “A True Tale” from Poems on Several
Occasions (1764)
Appendix B The Case of Ann Countess of Anglesey, Lately
Deceased . . . (1766)
Bibliography

About the author

Lucy Cogan is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. She has published a range of articles on William Blake and women’s writing in the long-eighteenth century, and produced a scholarly edition of Charlotte Dacre’s first novel, The Nun of St. Omer, for Routledge. Her forthcoming monograph is entitled, William Blake and the Failure of Prophecy.

Summary

This scholarly edition of Du Bois’s 1770 novel, Theodora, A Novel, introduces readers to a unique voice in women’s writing of the eighteenth century that has been undeservedly dismissed by literary history for far too long.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Cogan, Dorothea Du Bois
• Assisted by: Lucy Cogan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780367714215
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71421-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies