These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.

By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection offers accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, which provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.

These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.

These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.

These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.

This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Alicia LeFanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, which sheds light on the controversial role of the female writers in the early nineteenth century.

Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.