Published anonymously in 1773 and attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, this epistolary novel explores the "unfortunate attachment" of Emma Eggerton t

Based on the British Library's Eighteenth century short title catalogue (ESTC), and consisting of works printed in the British Empire, or printed in English any

In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and