Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: editing women's writing, 1670-1840 -- 2 An ambitious and quixotic series: the ever-shifting role of the editor and the Chawton House Library Series -- 3 Editing Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator (1744-1746): making (and unmaking) a periodical 'for women' -- 4 Mary Robinson's poetry and questions of quality -- 5 Annotating Delarivier Manley: stripping away preconceptions of gender and genre -- 6 Julie and Julia: tracing intertextuality in Helen Maria Williams's novel -- 7 Romancing the past: women's historical fiction, editorial pains and practices -- 8 A 'Piece written by a Lady': gender, anonymous authorship and editing The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House (1760) -- 9 'Some uncalled-for revival of by-gone scandals'?: editing women's court memoirs -- 10 'Posthumous remains, family papers, and reminiscences sans fin': editing women in the Chawton House Library Series -- 11 Publishing Frances Burney's journals and letters in twenty-five volumes -- 12 'An Editor's duty is indeed that of most danger': the rationale for a digital edition of Elizabeth Montagu's letters -- Selected works cited -- Index