Mary Ann Hanway was an eighteenth-century travel writer and

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

. She has been proposed as the anonymous author of ''Journey to the

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'' (1777). Hanway was also the author of ''Christabelle, the Maid of

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'' (1814), in which a woman's father loses their family's fortune, and she joins a

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, ''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

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'', that "four years it has been

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d, 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".

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*''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). *''Ellinor, or, The World as It Is.'' (4 vols. London:

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, 1798) *''Andrew Stuart, or the northern wanderer. A novel.'' (4 vols. London:

, 1800). *''Falconbridge Abbey. A Devonshire Story.'' (5 vols. London:

, 1809). *''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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