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The novels and selected works of Maria Edgeworth

The journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay

This five-volume critical edition presents the lively and candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of "The History of England". Spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay's pen to remain unpublished. It is the most revealing of all his writings. These unique manuscripts are now held at Trinity College, Cambridge. They have never been published before. Macaulay was acutely aware of the verdict of posterity and never published anything he had not carefully revised and polished. But when he wrote the Journal, the masks were put aside. He knew the leading Liberal politicians, most importantly Lord Lansdowne, Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell. He was closest to the writers and scholars who frequented the Athenaeum, like Dean Milman, Henry Hallam, George Cornewall Lewis, and the economist Nassau Senior. He knew Thackeray, Dickens, Carlyle (whom he disliked) and Bulwer Lytton. Through his Clapham sect connections he had ties with both the Church and the City; regularly dining with Bishop Samuel Wilberforce and his circle, and taking investment advice from the banker Henry Thornton.

The miscellaneous writings of Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known as a novelist; however this prolific and talented author was also a notable historian, literary critic, translator, medical writer and satirist. This volume will help us to reassess our understanding of Smollett by presenting some of his most significant miscellaneous writings in a new critical edition.