PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Katherine Zelinsky currently teaches English at The University of Calgary and has published in the area of eighteenth-century fiction.
The Adventures of Rivella is important not only as fiction, as a proto-novel, but also as veiled autobiography and is especially valuable for the light it throws on a woman author's relations with publishers and other writers, both male and female. This edition makes this overlooked early eighteenth-century text widely available; furthermore, Zelinsky's thorough, judicious editorial apparatus allows the reader to understand the book's complex and fascinating contexts. --Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta
