Sources
for Anecdotal Records
93 source works [organised
alphabetically by commentator]
Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of the Late Lucy Aikin,
ed. by Philip Hemery le Breton (London: Longman, 1864).
Jane Austen’s Letters, ed. by Deirdre Le Faye, 3rd edn
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). [abbreviated as Le Faye]
Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, ed. by Judith Bailey
Slagle, 2 vols (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
1999).
Patrick Joseph Murray, The Life of John Banim, the
Irish Novelist (London: William Lay, 1857).
Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry
from the Year 1783 to 1852, ed. by Lady Theresa Lewis, 3 vols
(London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1865).
Margaret Oliphant, Annals of a Publishing House,
3 vols (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1897). [abbreviated as Oliphant]
The Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray,
ed. by John A. Kempe (London: Chapman and Hall, 1884).
Mary Brunton, Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces. To
Which is Prefixed a Memoir of her Life, Including Some Extracts
from her Correspondence (Edinburgh: Manners and Miller, and
Archibald Constable and Co; London: John Murray, 1819).
The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay),
ed. by Edward A. Bloom et al., 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1974–1984).
The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, ed. by Lorna J.
Clark (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1997).
Lady Charlotte Bury, The Diary of a Lady-In-Waiting,
ed. by A. F. Steuart, 2 vols (London: John Lane, 1908).
Lady Blessington’s Conversations of Lord Byron, ed. by
Ernest J. Lovell, jun. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969).
Medwin’s Conversations of Lord Byron, ed. by Ernest J.
Lovell, jun. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966).
Byron’s Letters and Journals, ed. by Leslie
A. Marchand, 13 vols (London: John Murray, 1973–94).
An Irish Beauty of the Regency. Compiled from ‘Mes
Souvenirs,’—The Unpublished Journals of the Hon. Mrs. Calvert
1789–1822, ed. by Mrs Warrenne Blake (London and New York:
John Lane, 1911).
The Letters of Princess Charlotte, ed. by A. Aspinall
(London: Home and Van Thal, 1949).
The Journals of Claire Clairmont, ed. by Marion Kingston
Stocking, with the assistance of David Mackenzie Stocking (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1968).
The Clairmont Correspondence: Letters of Claire Clairmont,
Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin, ed. by Marion Kingston
Stocking, 2 vols (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed.
by Earl Leslie Griggs, 6 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia,
ed. by George Whalley, vol. 12.1 (London: Routledge, 1980).
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia,
ed. by George Whalley, vol. 12.2 (London: Routledge, 1984).
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia,
ed. by George Whalley and H. J. Jackson, vol. 12.4 (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1998).
Thomas Constable, Archibald Constable and his Literary Correspondents,
3 vols (Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1873). [abbreviated
as ACLC]
Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper, ed. by James
Fenimore Cooper, 2 vols (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922).
The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper, ed.
by James Franklin Beard, 6 vols (Cambridge, MA: Belknap-Harvard
University Press, 1960–69)
Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe, ed. by
Thomas C. Faulkner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).
Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and their writers, ed.
by Edith J. Morley, 3 vols (London: Dent, 1938).
The Croker Papers: Correspondence and Diaries of John Wilson
Croker, ed. by Louis J. Jennings, 3 vols (London: John Murray,
1884).
James Ogden, Isaac D’Israeli (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1969).
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, ed. by Augustus
J. C. Hare, 2 vols (London: Edward Arnold, 1894).
Maria Edgeworth in France
and Switzerland.
Selections from the Edgeworth family letters, ed. by Christina
Colvin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979).
Maria Edgeworth: Letters from England
1813–1844,
ed. by Christina Colvin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).
Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia
Barbauld, selected from the Lushington Papers,
ed. by Walter Sidney Scott (London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1953).
Memoir and Correspondence of Susan Ferrier.
1782–1854. Collected by her Grand-Nephew John Ferrier,
ed. by John A. Doyle (London: Murray, 1898; rpt. London: Eveleigh,
1929).
John Galt, The Autobiography of
John Galt, 2 vols (London: Cochrane
and McCrone, 1833).
John Galt, The Literary Life and Miscellanies of John
Galt, 3 vols (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1834).
R. P. Gillies, Memoirs of a Literary Veteran,
3 vols (London: Bentley, 1851).
Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs Grant
of Laggan, ed. by J. P. Grant, 3
vols (London: Longman, 1844).
A Second Self: The Letters of Harriet Granville, 1810–1845,
ed. by Virginia Surtees (Salisbury, Wiltshire: Michael Russell,
1990).
S. C. Hall, Retrospect of a Long Life: From 1815–1883,
2 vols (London: Bentley, 1883).
Elizabeth Benger, Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Elizabeth
Hamilton. With a Selection from her Correspondence, and Other Unpublished
Writings, 2 vols (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown,
1818).
The Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon, ed. by William
Bissell Pope, 5 vols (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960–63).
The Fate of the Fenwicks: Letters to
Mary Hays (1798–1828), ed. by A.
F. Wedd (London: Methuen & Co, 1927).
James Hogg, Memoirs of the Author’s Life and Familiar
Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott, ed. by Douglas S. Mack (New York:
Barnes & Noble, 1972).
James Hogg, Anecdotes of Scott, ed. by Jill Rubenstein
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999).
The Letters of Sara Hutchinson from 1800–1835,
ed. by Kathleen Coburn (London: Routledge, 1954).
Life and Letters of Washington Iriving,
ed. by Pierre M. Irving, 3 vols (London: Bentley, 1862).
Letters of Washington Irving, ed. by Ralph M. Aderman,
Herbert L. Kleinfield, and Jennifer S. Banks, 4 vols (Boston: Twayne,
1978–82). [abbreviated as Aderman]
Washington Irving and the House of Murray: Geoffrey
Crayon Charms the British, 1817–1856, ed. by Ben Harris McClary
(Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1969).
Letters of John Keats 1814–1821, ed. by Hyder Edward
Rollins, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958).
Mary Leadbeater, The Leadbeater Papers, 2 vols
(London: Bell and Daldy, 1862; rpt. Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998).
I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791–1840,
ed. by Helena Whitbread (New York and London: New York University
Press, 1988).
No Priest but Love: Excerpts from the
Diaries of Anne Lister, 1824–1826,
ed. by Helena Whitbread (West Yorkshire: Smith Settle, 1992).
Andrew Lang, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart,
2 vols (London: Nimmo, 1897).
The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, ed. by Thomas
Pinney, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974–81).
Horst W. Drescher. Literature and Literati: The Literary
Correspondence and Notebooks of Henry Mackenzie, Vol. 1 (Frankfurt
am Main: P. Lang, 1989).
Mary Russell Mitford, ‘The Literary Pocket-Book’, unpublished
MS, British Library, Shelfmark C.60.b.7.
Letters of Mary Russell Mitford, Second Series, ed. by
Henry Chorley et al., 2 vols (London: Bentley, 1872).
The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, ed. by A. G. L’Estrange,
3 vols (London: Bentley, 1870).
The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford, ed. by A. G.
L’Estrange, 2 vols (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1882).
Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence,
ed. by W. Hepworth Dixon, 2 vols (London: William
H. Allen & Co, 1862).
Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir
and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, 2nd edn, 2 vols
(London: John Murray, 1891). [abbreviated as Smiles]
The Diary of Benjamin Newton, Rector of Wath, 1816–1818,
ed. by C. P. Ferdall and E. A. Crutchley (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1933).
The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, ed. by Nicholas A.
Joukovsky, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001).
Anne Plumptre, Narrative of a Residence in Ireland
during the Summer of 1814, and that of 1815 (London: Henry Colburn,
1817).
The Diary of Dr John Polidori, 1816, ed. by W. M. Rossetti
(London: E. Matthews, 1911).
A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters
of Agnes Porter, ed. by Joanna Martin (London: Hambledon Press,
1998).
A Regency Visitor: The English Tour of
Prince Pückler-Muskau, Described in his
Letters, 1826–1828, ed. by E. M.
Butler, from the original translation by Sarah Austin (London: Collins,
1957).
Cyrus Redding, Fifty Years’ Recollections, 3 vols
(London: Skeet, 1858).
Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers. First Collected
by the Revd Alexander Dyce, ed. by Morchard Bishop (London:
The Richards Press Ltd, 1952).
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, ed. by W. E. K. Anderson
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).
The Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Robert
Maturin (New York: Garland, 1980).
The Private Letter Books of Sir Walter Scott, ed. by
Wilfred Partington (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930).
Sir Walter’s Post-Bag,
ed. by Wilfred Partington (London: Murray, 1932).
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott, ed. by H. Grierson et
al., 13 vols (Edinburgh: Constable, 1932). [abbreviated as Grierson].
Used with: James Clarkson Corson, Notes and Index to Sir Herbert
Grierson’s Edition of the Letters of Sir Walter Scott, (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1979) [abbreviated as Corson], and with Millgate
Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence, http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/resources/scott/
Life and Letters of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ed. by
Mary E. Dewey (New York: Harper, 1871).
The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814–1844, ed. by Paula
Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1987).
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed. by Betty
T. Bennett, 3 vols (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980–88).
The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by Frederick
L. Jones, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964).
Shelley and his Circle: 1773–1822, ed. by Kenneth
Neill Cameron & Donald H. Reiman, 8 vols to date (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1961–)
The Memoirs of Susan Sibbald (1783–1812), ed. by Francis
Paget Hett (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1926).
Rollins, H. D. ‘Letters of Horace Smith to Colburn’,
Harvard Library Bulletin 3 (1949), 360.
The Letters of Sydney Smith, ed. by Nowell C. Smith,
2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953).
New Letters of Robert Southey,
ed. by Kenneth Curry, 2 vols (New York: Columbia University Press,
1965).
The Early Married Life of Maria Josepha
Lady Stanley, ed. by Jane H. Adeane
(London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899).
The Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart, introd. by R. Brimley
Johnson (London: John Lane, 1926).
Isaac Taylor, Memoirs and Poetical Remains of the
Late Jane Taylor: With Extracts from her Correspondence, 2nd
edn, 2 vols (London: B. J. Holdsworth, 1826).
Edward Wakefield, An Account of Ireland,
Statistical and Political, 2 vols (London: Longman & Co,
1812).
‘Christopher North’: A Memoir of John Wilson, compiled
by Mary Wilson Gordon; with an introduction by R. Shelton Mackenzie
(New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1863).
The Letters of Dorothy and William Wordsworth, ed. by
Ernest D. Selincourt, 8 vols Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967–93.
The Wynne Diaries,
ed. by Anne Freemantle, 3 vols (London: Oxford University Press,
1940).
The Scotswoman at Home and Abroad: Non-Fictional Writing
1700–1900, ed. by Dorothy McMillan (Glasgow: Association
for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999).
Papers and Diaries of a York Family 1764–1839,
ed. by Mrs. Edwin Gray (London: The Sheldon Press, 1927).
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