Title details for What Has Been:

Year:	1801.
Author(s):	Eliza Kirkham MATHEWS?
Gender:	Female.
Title:	WHAT HAS BEEN. A NOVEL. IN TWO VOLUMES.
Publication:	London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, 1801.
Format:	2 vols (I 288p; II 268p). 12°.
Cat. nos:	Corvey; CME 3-628-48898-2; EN2 1801: 48; xNSTC; OCLC 4104206.
Notes:	Blakey and Summers treat this work as anonymous, the latter adding 'The first literary attempt of a lady'. Attributed to 'Mrs Mathews' on t.p. of the American edn, Alexandria 1803, as seen at University of Pennsylvania; OCLC attributes to Mrs Charles Mathews, d. 1802. FC includes this as a late work of Eliza Kirkham Mathews (1772–1802) in its entry on that author.
Further edns:	Alexandria, VA, 1803 (OCLC).
DBF record no:	1801A050.