Publicity, Privacy, and the Power of Fiction in the Gunning Letters

‘The first impression, you, yourself, will buy’: The Gunninghiad, Virginius and Virginia and the Art of Scandal at the Minerva Press

“…Gunning's early publications in collaboration with her sister Margaret and later novels published 'By a Lady' but attributed to her make it difficult to draw an accurate picture of her bibliography, but Gunning's early novels are not strictly epistolary in style. 12 Gunning was involved in the production of at least fourteen literary works, excluding publications to do with the scandal, such as her Letter to Argyll. Of these fourteen, three were certainly written in collaboration with Margaret.…”