Nature And Art (Paperback)

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Elizabeth Inchbald: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Nature and Art

Appendix A: The Composition of the Novel and the Art of Novel Writing

1. Textual Changes from First (1796) to Second (1797) Edition, with Passages Deleted from Second Edition
1. Passage deleted from Chapter
2. Passage deleted from Chapter
3. Conclusion to the First Edition
2. Letters between Inchbald and William Godwin
1. Letter to Godwin Describing the Travails of Novel Writing (November 1792)
2. Two undated letters to Godwin on Reading Proofs of his Caleb Williams [1794]
3. Undated letter to Godwin Describing his Reading of Her Manuscript, probably “A Satire on the Times” (1794/5)
4. Letter from Godwin to Inchbald (1 December 1817)
3. Inchbald’s Essay on Novel Writing from The Artist (1807)

Appendix B: “The Prejudice of Education”: Philosophical Influences

1. From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, ou de l’Éducation (1762)
2. From Thomas Day, The History of Sandford and Merton (1783-89)
3. From William Godwin, The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature in a Series of Essays (1797)

Appendix C: Literary Cross-Currents: Political Critique in Inchbald’s Jacobin Contemporaries

1. The “Noble Savage” and the British Aristocracy, from Robert Bage, Hermsprong (1796)
2. Corruptions in Church and State
1. From Thomas Holcroft, The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794-97)
2. From Robert Bage, Hermsprong (1796)
3. Seductions and Prostitution
1. From Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria (1798)
2. From Mary Hays, The Victim of Prejudice (1799)

Appendix D: Africa and the Sierra Leone Colony

1. From Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)
2. Letter from First Governors of Sierra Leone Settlement (1788)
3. The Sierra Leone Company’s Declaration (1791)
4. From Anna Maria Falconbridge, Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, During the Years 1791–92–93 (1794)

Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews and Critical Preface

1. [Mary Wollstonecraft], Analytical Review (January-June 1796)
2. Monthly Mirror (March 1796)
3. Critical Review (March 1796)
4. Monthly Review (April 1796)
5. The Moral and Political Magazine (June–September 1796)
6. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Preface to The British Novelists Series, Vol. 27 (1810)

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