Mary Ann Hanway was an eighteenth-century travel writer and novelist. She has been proposed as the anonymous author of Journey to the Highlands of Scotland (1777).
Hanway was also the author of Christabelle, the Maid of Rouen (1814), in which a woman's father loses their family's fortune, and she joins a nunnery, Ellinor (1798), and Andrew Stuart (1800). Hanway did not always find the process of writing easy, declaring in the preface to her 1809 novel Falconbridge Abbey, that "four years it has been procrastinated, from a series of ill health, having laid dormant in my desk for six months together!".
Hanway declared in Ellinor that "There are very few arts or sciences that women are not capable of acquiring, were they educated with the same advantages as men".
Bibliography A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland. With Occasional Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Tour: By a Lady. (London: John Fielding and John Walker II, 1776).Hanway, Mary Ann. A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland. With Occasional Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Tour: By a Lady. The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 1808, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/1808. Accessed 2022-06-09. Ellinor, or, The World as It Is. (4 vols. London: Minerva Press, 1798) Andrew Stuart, or the northern wanderer. A novel. (4 vols. London: Minerva Press, 1800).Hanway, Mary Ann. Andrew Stuart, or the northern wanderer. A novel. In Four Volumes. By Mary Ann Hanway. Author of "Ellinor, or the World as it is". The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 1811, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/1811. Accessed 2022-06-09. Falconbridge Abbey. A Devonshire Story. (5 vols. London: Minerva Press, 1809).Hanway, Mary Ann. Falconbridge Abbey. A Devonshire Story. In Five Volumes. By Mrs. Hanway, Author Of "Ellinor", And "Andrew Stuart". The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 8380, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/8380. Accessed 2022-06-09. Christabelle, The Maid of Rouen. A Novel, Founded on Facts. (4 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814).Hanway, Mary Ann. Christabelle, The Maid of Rouen. A Novel, Founded on Facts. By Mrs. Hanway, Author Of "Ellinor," "Andrew Stuart," And "Falconbridge Abbey." The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 8379, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/8379. Accessed 2022-06-09.
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