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PITHY QUOTE FROM Pickering Women's Classics

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It were as vain as impossible to trace you through every degree of error on the scale of folly and imprudence, and such a repetition would be more heart-wounding to me than painful to you, were it even made under the most extenuating bias of parental fondness.

Pickering Women's Classics. The Wild Irish Girl, Volume I. Introductory Letters

Pickering Women's Classics. Electronic Edition. book cover

Pickering Women's Classics. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-260-2

Language: English

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Detail: Portrait of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne. Believed to be by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1635

List of Contents

Baillie, Joanna. Joanna Baillie: A Selection of Poems and Plays. Edited with introduction and notes by Amanda Gilroy and Keith Hanley. London; Brookfield, Vt.: Pickering & Chatto, 2002.


Cavendish, Margaret. The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666) and Other Writings. Edited by Kate Lilley. London: W. Pickering, 1992.


Charke, Charlotte. Narrative of the Life of Charlotte Charke. Edited with introduction and notes by Robert Rehder. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999.


Counterfeit Ladies. The Life and Death of Mal Cutpurse and The Case of Mary Carleton. London: William Pickering, 1994.


* Eliot, George. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Edited by Nancy Henry. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1994.


Inchbald, Elizbeth. Nature and Art. Edited with introduction and notes by Shawn Lisa Maurer. London; Brookfield, Vt.: Pickering & Chatto, 1997.


Nightingale, Florence. Cassandra and other selections from Suggestions for thought. Edited by Mary Poovey. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1992.


Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan. The Wild Irish Girl. Edited with an introduction and notes by Claire Connolly and Stephen Copley. With a foreword by Kevin Whelan. London; Brookfield, Vt.: Pickering & Chatto, 2000.


Rossetti, Christina. Maude. “On Sisterhoods” and A Woman's Thoughts about Women by Dinah Mulock Craik. [All] edited by Elaine Showalter. Textual notes by Penny Mahon. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1993.


Serao, Matilde. The conquest of Rome. Edited by Ann Caesar. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1991.


La Roche, Sophie von. The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim. Edited by James Lynn. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1992.



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