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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 An Collins
Only one copy is known to have survived (at the Huntington Library : shelfmark 54047). This copy was once in the collection of Sir Mark Sykes , husband of novelist Henrietta Sykes ..
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge.
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Textual Production Maria Theresa Kemble
It was never published. The manuscript submitted to the censor is Larpent 1254 at the Huntington Library .
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 The songs were printed this year, though the piece itself remained unpublished.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 Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
As Lady Craven, the future EMA had several of her plays (light farces, pantomimes, and fables) privately performed. From the late 1770s onwards they were given for the benefit of the poor of...
Textual Production Hannah Cowley
She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it...
Textual Production Maria Theresa Kemble
This is Larpent 1447 in the Huntington . It remained unpublished for the time being, but in about 1835 George Daniel of Islington printed it as by Mrs Charles Kemble, from the acting copy...
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.
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The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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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.
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Liebet , the daughter she chose as executor of her will, complied with this in...
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC was said after her death to have published writings in French, but these have not been traced. Some of her manuscripts are in private hands. Burns 's two surviving letters to her are in...
Textual Production Maria Theresa Kemble
This is Larpent 1549, Huntington Library . It was published later that year, in an American edition in 1813, and in a reprint of around 1856.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
By 1813 it had been performed at New York...
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 Catherine Cuthbertson
It remained unpublished; its manuscript is Larpent 969 in the Huntington Library . The identity of this Miss Cuthbertson with the novelist is speculative.
Textual Production Anna Margaretta Larpent
AML closed the diary she had kept since 1773; her last passage describes the business of disposing of the archive of play manuscripts which is now the Larpent Collection in the Huntington Library .
Larpent, Anna Margaretta. A Woman’s View of Drama. Adam Matthew.
July 1830
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.
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...

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