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Kit Baston
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Historian of the Long Eighteenth Century | Research Fellow, Books and Borrowing (2020-2023) | www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kit-baston-36998540
Definitely of interest! Thank you!
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by Kit Baston
“THE INHERITANCE is, then, a novel concerned with questions of morality and education, but also national identity, the differences between Scottish and English cultures… It is also very funny”

—Books & Borrowing, 1750–1830 on Susan Ferrier’s THE INHERITANCE
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borrowing.stir.ac.uk/forgotten-be...
Books and Borrowing 1750-1830 :: Forgotten Best-Sellers: Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824)
borrowing.stir.ac.uk
September 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted by Kit Baston
We republished Susan Ferrier’s MARRIAGE in 2020—using the text of the acid-sharp 1819 2nd edition rather than the sentimentalised Victorian 4th edition of 1841. You can read the first chapter online here:
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www.yumpu.com/en/document/...
Marriage: A Novel, by Susan Ferrier - Vol. 1 Ch. 1
Chapter 1 of Susan Ferrier's Marriage – a witty and satirical examination of female lives in the Regency
www.yumpu.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Also www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... (good info on Scots law and witchcraft in this one).
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM