Books: Eighteenth-Century English Novel Biography

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index. 1991/1995 Cumulation. McNeil, Barbara, ed. New York: Gale, 1995.
R Z5305 .U5 B5601

A comprehensive index to many biographical sources

British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide. Janet Todd, ed. New York: Continuum, 1989.
R PR111 .B75

Contains biographical information along with histories of publication and critical reception. Essential for information on women writers not found in the standard biographical sources.

A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800. Janet Todd, ed. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987.
R PR113 .D5

A collection of biographies, history, criticism, and publications. Includes women writers not found in the DNB, and obscured by the emphasis on male authors of the Augustan tradition in most other sources.

Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 39 British Novelists, 1660-1800. Part 1 A-L and Part 2 M-Z
Battestin, Martin C., ed. Detroit Michigan: Gale, 1985.
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Includes detailed biographical information, portraits, and a history of each author's work and its criticism. Also provides a list of books, editions, collections, letters, bibliographies, biographies, and references.

Dictionary of National Biography Founded in 1882 by George Smith. Stephen, Sir Leslie and Sir Sidney Lee, eds. From the Earliest Times to 1900. London: Oxford Univerisity Press, 1960.
R CT 773 .D41