'The attention to Finch's accomplishments and the notes about the events and personages mentioned in the works result in a resource that offers a unique understanding of Finch's status in her own time. The documentation alone makes it valuable to serious students and scholars of 18th-century literature.' M. H. Kealy, Choice 'The two-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne ... Read moreFinch: Countess of Winchelsea allows us to imagine an alternative Age of Finch. The editors, Claudia Kairoff and Jennifer Keith, have completed with astonishing thoroughness, sensitivity, and seriousness one of the landmark pieces of eighteenth-century scholarship of this century … Against centuries of incomplete attention to Finch, Keith and Kairoff have “redeemed” her in a triumphant act of feminist intervention and recovery.' Andrew Black, Digital Defoe 'Jennifer Keith and her coeditors, as well as Cambridge University Press, are to be applauded for this monumental editorial achievement. A new generation of scholars can now access Finch's works in this authoritative edition with extensive textual and explanatory notes and compare the manuscript and published versions. In doing so, they can begin to place Finch in the context of her literary predecessors, both male and female, and contemporaries, such as the Jacobite Jane Barker.' Mihoko Suzuki, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Show Less