With useful and copious Notes, descriptive of the Objects most worthy of Attention in the Vicinity of Harrogate. Knaresborough. G. Wilson. 1812. pp. 103. 8vo.Original boards, front hinge rubbed but firm. With the bookplate of William F. Taylor and J O Edwards. Jackson. Romantic Poetry by Women . A Bibliography 1770- - 1835. p164. Hoole, Barbara, Mrs T Bradwshawe (1770 - 1844). After her husband's death her funds were invested in a firm that failed and she turned to writing and teaching. The Clergyman's Widow (1812) sold 17,000 copies and by 1820 she had written more than 20 novels....She wrote altogether about seventy works, of which nearly 300,000 copies were sold. Johnson 460. 'In the preface the author describes this piece as one'of a numerous progeny of watering place bagatelles' of which the 'admirable production of Mr Anstey's the "New Bath Guide",...may justly be considered the parent.'

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