E J Clery: 3 books
Jane Austen
The Banker's Sister
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
When it was announced that Jane Austen would appear on the new £10 note in 2017, few were aware that a £10 Austen banknote already existed - issued by her favourite brother. Handsome, clever and enterprising, Henry Austen founded a bank business and charmed his way into the top rank of aristocratic...
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
In 1811 England was on the brink of economic collapse and revolution. The veteran poet and campaigner Anna Letitia Barbauld published a prophecy of the British nation reduced to ruins by its refusal to end the interminable war with France, titled Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. Combining ground-breaking...
Anna Letitia Barbauld
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743*–*1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility...