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]

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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]

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  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. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 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.