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Dick Doyle's Journal Volume 2

by Richard Doyle with illustrations by the author

In this second volume of the diary of Richard Doyle, who was soon to become the much-loved Punch graphic artist, we follow the talented fifteen-year-old in his energetic pursuit of art, music, and military reviews, through the vivid summer days of the London of 1840.

Edited by Juliet McMaster and others.

Jane Austen's Men

Rakes, fools, takers, losers: in these four brief tales featuring male protagonists, young Jane Austen’s men fall victim to her fierce feminist pen.

Edited by Sylvia Hunt and others with illustrations by Juliet McMaster

Jane Austen's Three Mini–Dramas

Jane Austen became a novelist, not a playwright. But her engagement with the stage in these three mini-dramas shows a wonderfully inventive response to the theatre of her time, and a sportive demonstration that she too can handle a scene and present character through dialogue.

Edited by Juliet McMaster, Lesley Peterson and others with illustrations by Juliet McMaster, Zoe Share and Allison Yung

Dick Doyle's Journal

by Richard Doyle with illustrations by the author

In this portrait of the artist as a boy, Richard Doyle, soon to be a noted Punch artist and illustrator of Dickens, Thackeray, and Ruskin, records his first professional foray. His journal comes in words and lively pictures, recording his full engagement in the teeming cultural life of the London of 1840.

Edited by Juliet McMaster and others

Branwell's Blackwood's Magazine

The Glass Town Magazine written by Branwell Brontë with contributions from his sister Charlotte Brontë

Branwell Brontë is generally known as the misfit brother of three famous literary sisters. Yet he was probably the first to document the young Brontës’ imaginary childhood saga, and he preceded his sisters into print, publishing nineteen poems in local newspapers—at least fourteen of them before Charlotte’s …

Edited by Christine Alexander and assisted by Vanessa Benson
and illustrations by Rebecca Alexander

Jane Austen's Lady Susan

Lady Susan is Jane Austen’s depiction of the attraction of evil. Written when the author was nineteen, this early letter novel is a brilliantly cynical study of high society. In Lady Susan we experience the malicious wit and energy of the early writings and glimpse the polish and sophistication of her later novels.

Edited by Christine Alexander and David Owen; with illustrations by Juliet McMaster.

Charlotte Brontë's Tales of the Islanders Volume 4

In volume 4 of Tales of the Islanders the Brontës, disguised as three old washerwomen, confront the Duke of Wellington. Domesticity and the real world are left behind in favour of fantasy and otherworldly tales.

Edited by Christine Alexander and others.

Iris Vaughan's The Diary of Iris Vaughan

Iris Vaughan's Diary, begun when Vaughan was only seven, is as much autobiography as Diary. It also gives a charming, keenly observed and brilliantly amusing picture of colonial Africa as Victorianism made way for the twentieth century.

Edited by Peter F. Alexander and Peter Midgley.