Elizabeth Hays Lanfear, Selections from Sketches from Real Life and Letters to Young Ladies (1824)


For a short summary of the life of Elizabeth Hays Lanfear, click here for her entry in the Biographical Summaries. For summaries of her writings, click here and here. For a more complete introduction to Lanfear, along with a new edition of Fatal Errors, selections from Lanfear's Letters to Young Ladies on their Entrance into the World (1824), her contributions to Mary Hays's Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous (1793), and her two surviving letters to Mary Hays, see Fatal Errors: or, Poor Mary-Anne, a Tale of the Last Century, ed. Timothy Whelan and Felicity James (London: Routledge, 2019).