Research Catalog

Title

Eliza Fenwick manuscript material, 1802-1832.

Author

Fenwick, E. (Eliza)

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Additional Authors

• Hays, Mary, 1759-1843
• Porter, Jane, 1776-1850

Description

3 items

Summary

• · To Mary Hays, writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 May 1806 : (S'ANA 0988) : explaining that she has had to go to Portsmouth in a hurry. She has been indisposed and will require more tranquility than is likely to be her lot, to restore her full health.
• · To Jane Porter, novelist : 2 autograph letters signed : -- 2 Jun 1802 : (MISC 2349) : begins, "Mr. Fenwick is seriously angry with me that I have not thanked you ..." -- 30 Aug 1832 : (MISC 2301) : begins, "Will not My dear Miss Porter participate in the feeling which prompts this address from a friend of former days?"

Subjects

• Fenwick, E (Eliza) > Correspondence
• Authors, English > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Eliza Fenwick, English writer. Best known for her epistolary novel Secresy, or, The Ruin on the Rock, she also wrote several works for children. Fenwick's social circle included Charles and Mary Lamb, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Hays, and for a brief period in 1807 she took over the running of William Godwin's Juvenile Library bookshop in London.

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

218290872

Author

Fenwick, E. (Eliza)

Title

Eliza Fenwick manuscript material, 1802-1832.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Eliza Fenwick, English writer. Best known for her epistolary novel Secresy, or, The Ruin on the Rock, she also wrote several works for children. Fenwick's social circle included Charles and Mary Lamb, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Hays, and for a brief period in 1807 she took over the running of William Godwin's Juvenile Library bookshop in London.

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Added Author

Hays, Mary, 1759-1843, addressee.

Porter, Jane, 1776-1850, addressee.

Research Call Number

Pforz MS