Julia Kavanagh (1824 1877) published English Women of Letters in two volumes in 1862. The work, which formed a pair with French Women of Letters (1862), traces the contribution of English women writers, from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, to the development of the modern novel. Volume 2 contains brief biographical sketches and evaluations of the major works of five important woman writers: Elizabeth Inchbald (1753 1821) and A Simple Story; Maria Edgeworth (1767 1849) and Castle Rackrent, Belinda and Tales of Fasionable Life; Jane Austen (1775 1817) and her six major novels; Amelia...

The Irish novelist Julia Kavanagh (1824 1877) published English Women of Letters in two volumes in 1862. The work, which formed a pair with French Women of Letters (1862), traces the contribution of English women writers, from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, to the development and formation of the modern novel. Volume 1 contains biographical sketches of five female authors followed by evaluations of their most important works: Aphra Behn (1640 1689) and Oroonoko; Sarah Fielding (1710 1768) and David Simple; Madame D'Arblay (1752 1840), also known as Fanny Burney, and Evelina and...