Mary Ann Hanway

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Mary Ann Hanway was an eighteenth-century travel writer and novelist. She has been proposed as the anonymous author of Journey to the Highlands of Scotland (1777).[1]

Hanway was also the author of Christabelle, the Maid of Rouen (1814), in which a woman's father loses their family's fortune, and she joins a nunnery,[2][3] Ellinor (1798), and Andrew Stuart (1800).[2] Hanway did not always find the process of writing easy, declaring in the preface to her 1809 novel Falconbridge Abbey, that "four years it has been procrastinated, from a series of ill health, having laid dormant in my desk for six months together!".[2]

Hanway declared in Ellinor that "There are very few arts or sciences that women are not capable of acquiring, were they educated with the same advantages as men".[4]

Bibliography[edit]

  • A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland. With Occasional Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Tour: By a Lady. (London: John Fielding and John Walker II, 1776).[5]
  • Ellinor, or, The World as It Is. (4 vols. London: Minerva Press, 1798)[2][4]
  • Andrew Stuart, or the northern wanderer. A novel. (4 vols. London: Minerva Press, 1800).[6]
  • Falconbridge Abbey. A Devonshire Story. (5 vols. London: Minerva Press, 1809).[7]
  • Christabelle, The Maid Of Rouen. A Novel, Founded On Facts. (4 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814).[8]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Elizabeth A. Bohls; Ian Duncan (10 November 2005). Travel Writing 1700–1830: An Anthology. Oxford University Press. pp. 163–. ISBN 978-0-19-284051-6.
  2. ^ a b c d Edward Copeland (2 December 2004). Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-0-521-61616-4.
  3. ^ Dror Wahrman (2006). The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-century England. Yale University Press. pp. 331–. ISBN 978-0-300-12139-1.
  4. ^ a b Pamela Clemit (10 February 2011). The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s. Cambridge University Press. pp. 152–. ISBN 978-0-521-51607-5.
  5. ^ Hanway, Mary Ann. A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland. With Occasional Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Tour: By a Lady. The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 1808, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/1808. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  6. ^ Hanway, Mary Ann. Andrew Stuart, or the northern wanderer. A novel. In Four Volumes. By Mary Ann Hanway. Author of "Ellinor, or the World as it is". The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 1811, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/1811. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  7. ^ Hanway, Mary Ann. Falconbridge Abbey. A Devonshire Story. In Five Volumes. By Mrs. Hanway, Author Of "Ellinor", And "Andrew Stuart". The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 8380, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/8380. Accessed 2022-06-09.
  8. ^ Hanway, Mary Ann. Christabelle, The Maid Of Rouen. A Novel, Founded On Facts. By Mrs. Hanway, Author Of "Ellinor," "Andrew Stuart," And "Falconbridge Abbey." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 8379, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/8379. Accessed 2022-06-09.