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CCR wrote her memoirs in old age, at popular request, finding herself often challenged for not setting down the remarkable Passages of my Life, and of the Divine Goodness manifested to me. The result...

JB 's letters and other papers survive in the National Library of Scotland , the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons , and elsewhere. Her Collected Letters were edited by Judith Bailey Slagle in...

BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. In 1930 she was awarded an annual...

J. Hog provided a prefatory letter. Manuscripts of her spiritual exercises survive in the National Library of Scotland .CCR is one of those included in David George Mullan , ed., Women's Life Writing in...

AB contributed translations from Politiano and Antonio Allamanni to Joseph Cooper Walker 's A Historical and Critical Essay on the Revival of the Drama in Italy, 1805. In February 1815 it...

Her letters to Edmund Downey survive in the National Library of Ireland , while correspondence between her and her publishers is in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland .

Unpublished poetry by NS is held in her archive at the National Library of Scotland , Manuscripts.27438-45. She disliked talking about her writing, and when asked about it she often deflected inquiries in an almost...

Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...

This work is not held by the British Library , the Bodleian , or Cambridge University Library . OCLC WorldCat lists only four copies of it: three in the USA and one in the National Library of Scotland

MS approached the process of writing in a manner characteristically savouring of magical ritual. She wrote in longhand, seldom revising, and never used a pen anyone else had touched. Her notebooks were of a particular...

Her papers, formerly held by the London publishing house of John Murray , are now in the National Library of Scotland . Both the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society hold some...

Margaret Holford the younger sent some Lines Occasioned by Reading the Poetical Works of Walter Scott to this admired figure some years before the appearance of her own Scott-influenced poem, Wallace. (Her...

The same publisher brought out her Unrequited, apparently undated. Even the National Library of Scotland (which listed both Service to Empire and Unrequited in its catalogue without having seen copies) is uncertain whether or...

Bowles maintained a cordial relationship with publisher William Blackwood , but her dealings with his sons Alexander and Robert were somewhat colder. It seems that she frequently made arrangements to receive books as remuneration for...

After her marriage Margaret Hodson published through John Murray in 1827 a volume of hymns designed especially for those facing death, written or else collected by herself. In September that year Joanna Baillie thanked her...