Routledge Fatal Errors by Elizabeth Hays Lanfear - Routledge Edition

Discover a lost piece of literary history with Fatal Errors; or Poor Mary-Anne. A Tale of the Last Century by Elizabeth Hays Lanfear. Part of the Chawton House Library: Women's Novels collection, this work represents a significant find for scholars and readers of 18th-century literature. Written in the late 1790s by the sister of Mary Hays, this novel eluded researchers for over a century until its discovery in the British Library in December 2015. While it was published in 1819 under the author's married name, Lanfear, the manuscript has a storied past. Notably, Mary Wollstonecraft read and commented on a version of this manuscript as early as 1796, though it was long believed to have never been published. This Routledge edition provides access to a work that was previously missing from the historical record of women novelists from the 1790s. It is an essential addition for those interested in the history and criticism of women's writing during this era.