Self-Control (1811)

by Mary Brunton

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Self-Control (1811) was a literary sensation, going into four editions in its first year. The first novelist to set her story against a strong Scottish background, Brunton set the scene for other writers such as Walter Scott. Jane Austen was also a fan, she read it at least twice, worrying that the work might foreshadow her own creations.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Mary Brunton	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Maitland, Sara	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Chawton House Library: Women's Novels (17)

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Scottish Women Writers: Self-Control, Memoirs of a Highland Lady, Modern Accomplishments (The eClassics Collection) by Mary Brunton

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Self-Control

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Self-Control

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1811

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His warfare is within.—There unfatigued
His fervent spirit labours.—There he fights,
And there obtains fresh triumphs o'er himself,
And never-withering wreaths, compared with which
The laurels that a Caesar reaps are weeds
---Cowper

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It was on a still evening in June, that Laura Montreville left her father's cottage, in the little village of Glenalbert, to begin a solitary ramble.

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Self-Control (1811) was a literary sensation, going into four editions in its first year. The first novelist to set her story against a strong Scottish background, Brunton set the scene for other writers such as Walter Scott. Jane Austen was also a fan, she read it at least twice, worrying that the work might foreshadow her own creations.

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