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Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
Textual Production	Lady Mary Wroth	It was probably designed for amateur performance. Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, pp. 3 - 75, 219. 53ff. Sir Edward Dering , a connection of the author by marriage and a theatre fan, owned a manuscript of this play in her hand. Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, pp. 3 - 75, 219. 37 His copy...
Textual Production	Helen Maria Williams	Letters from her survive at the Huntington Library , the Bodleian Library , and the Wellcome Library .
Reception	Anne Whitehead	Apart from George Whitehead, most of the contributors were women. The first two words of this title were later used again and again on pious testimonies. The copy at the Huntington Library has manuscript bibliographical...
Textual Production	Dorothy White	Following Priscilla Cotton but preceding Margaret Fell , DW defended women's preaching in A Call from God Out of Egypt, by His Son Christ the Light of Life, which is partly in verse (a...
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.
Textual Production	Eglinton Wallace	The manuscript is now in the Huntington Library : Larpent 1093. The full title, as published with EW 's name, was The Whim, A Comedy. . . . With an Address to the Public, upon...
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	Katharine Tynan	KT 's papers are held at the Southern Illinois University Library ; her letters from W. B. Yeats are at the Huntington Library ; and other papers are held at the University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
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	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
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	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	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	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

Timeline

27 November 1807

The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later the Adelphi), built by manufacturer John Scott, opened with an entertainment of speeches, songs, etc. written by his daughter, Jane Scott .

April 1947

A Bethlehem antiquities dealer bought some papyrus scrolls found by a Bedouin shepherd in a cave at Qumran near the Dead Sea. One copy of the book of Isaiah has proved to be the...

Texts

Child, Elizabeth. “Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 153-73.

Eger, Elizabeth. “‘Out rushed a female to protect the Bard’: The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 127-51.

Guest, Harriet. “Bluestocking Feminism”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 59-80.

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,. Guide to Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Huntington Library, 1979.

Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 105-25.

Lanser, Susan Sniader. “Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 257-75.

Magrath, Jane. “’Rags of Mortality’: Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 235-56.

Major, Emma. “The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 175-92.

Pohl, Nicole, and Betty Schellenberg. “Introduction: A Bluestocking Historiography”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 1-19.

Rizzo, Betty. “Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 193-14.

Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.