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Francesca Saggini is Professor in English Literature at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy. Since 2017, she has been Senior Research Associate, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Francesca is the author of, among others, The Gothic Novel and the Stage: Romantic Appropriations (2015, Honourable Mention at the 2016 ESSE Book Awards) and Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts (2012, Walken Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work in eighteenth-century studies). In 2021–2023, Francesca was the primary investigator on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded project at the University of Edinburgh, entitled ‘Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences’. Francesca is the author of five books and she has edited twelve collections and special journal issues. Among the over ninety-five articles and chapters she has authored, many engage with popular fiction and genre literature, including the gothic, the fantastic and crime writing.

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Date of acceptance: 7 March 2023.

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F. SAGGINI. Review of Jennie Batchelor, The Lady's Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History (2022), Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840, 25 (Summer 2024), pp. 120–24.

Online: Internet (date accessed): https://www.romtext.org.uk/reviews/rt25_r01/
PDF DOI:10.5281/zenodo.20032320.

Review of Jennie Batchelor, The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-4744-8766-5; open access (epdf)

10 May 2026

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