Description

In our first episode our guest scholar Dr. Emily Grover discusses precursors to Austen’s novels, the fraught history of female authors and readers, and the dangers of falling too deep into fiction.

Bibliography

• Anne Radcliffe. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Project Gutenberg.
• Charles Lamb, and Mary Lamb. The Works Of Charles and Mary Lamb, Miscellaneous Prose, Project Gutenberg.
• Charlotte Lennox. The Female Quixote,  Project Gutenberg.
• Marta Kvande and Emily Gilliland Grover. “The Mediation Is the Message: Charles Johnstone’s Chrysal (1760).” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 32, no. 4, June 2020, pp. 535–57. doi:10.3138/ecf.32.4.535.