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Textual Production Amelia Opie
The publisher was said to have offered her a thousand pounds for this novel and had gone so far as to advertise it for sale.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
On 6 December AO wrote to Elizabeth Fry denying...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
AO was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs or her husband; a few are from her...
Textual Production Jane Porter
JP 's unpublished works at the Folger Library include poems, letters, and personal diaries. Other papers of hers are in the Huntington Library . Her brother 's manuscripts, at the University of Kansas and Caracas...
Textual Production Mary Robinson
MR herself sold tickets for this benefit. The songs were printed this year, though the piece itself remained unpublished. The manuscript is Larpent 447, Huntington Library .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Textual Production Mary Robinson
Dorothy Jordan , who starred in it, set songs by MR to music. The manuscript of the play is in the Larpent Collection at the Huntington Library .
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
13: 37
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Textual Production Frances Arabella Rowden
Her book did well. Many clergy, many parents of girls in the Hans Place school, many relations of the author and of her dedicatee subscribed, plus Elizabeth Gunning , Richard Brinsley Sheridan , and Sarah Trimmer
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
Manuscripts of The Land and The Garden are in the Huntington Library . The Lilly Library at Bloomington, Indiana, has some letters and early diaries.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
VSW sold a total of eight manuscripts to the...
Textual Production Mary Scott
Steele , says MS (using her friend's pen-name, Theodosia), had urged her to finish the poem. Within the poem itself she also pays tribute, under the name of Philander, either to Steele's father...
Textual Production Sarah Scott
The Montagu Papers at the Huntington Library contain 367 of SS 's letters to her sister, and about twice that many from Elizabeth to her. Nicole Pohl 's edition of Scott's letters (those which survived...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS was a prolific and expressive letter-writer. Many of her letters have survived: the Huntington Library has 181.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,. Guide to Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Huntington Library.
Textual Production Lydia Howard Sigourney
LHS was an indefatigable correspondent. Her papers are to be found at the Connecticut Historical Library , the Connecticut State Library , the Huntington Library , the Schlesinger Library , the New York Historical Society
Family and Intimate relationships Gertrude Thimelby
GT 's youngest sister, Constance Aston (later Fowler) , was a letter-writer and a great collector of the manuscripts of her circle. Her collection (now in the Huntington Library ) is treated by the Perdita Project
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
Textual Production Elizabeth von Arnim
She requested that after she died, everything that might threaten the eyes and reason of the biographer be destroyed.
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head.
313
Liebet , the daughter she chose as executor of her will, complied with this in...
Textual Production Eglinton Wallace
The play was too long, so some passages were omitted in performance.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Ton, or Follies of Fashion. A Comedy. T, Hookham.
iv
The manuscript is now Larpent 801 in the Huntington Library . A Dublin edition quickly followed the London one.
“Eighteenth Century Collections Online”. Gale Databases.

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