British Library

Since LJL was her father's last surviving heir, his collections (including his library and her manuscripts) passed at his death to her widower. In 1609, they passed into the royal collection, and in due course...

On her father 's death AOK applied to the Royal Literary Fund , which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200.

When she got back to her mother's household in England, Margaret was distressed at the mismanagement of money and frequent lack of food. She was by then sixteen, and keenly felt that she should be...

Smith provides a thorough summary of the state of librarianship as a profession at the time. She notes that even for men, librarianship is a fledgling profession, so that women seeking to join it may...

Its title in print—Lizzie Lothian. An Autobiographical Romance. By E. K. Coulson. With an Introduction by E. F. Coulson—seems to draw attention to the similarity of the names of wife and husband. In...

While travelling to and through Egypt, FN kept a diary. It was thought until recently that only one diary survived from this trip, the one covering the period 1 January-15 July 1850, held at...

Many of MS 's papers can be found in London, at the British Library and the Wellcome Institute .

The play was published the same year by Matthew Carey at Philadelphia. A London edition followed in 1822. The British Library holds copies of each edition containing manuscript notes.

Matilda Betham published at Ipswich her first book, Elegies, and other Small Poems (including many in ballad metre), dedicated to Lady Jerningham .

The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse (drawn by EC herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus , addressed...

It seems that LH wrote this book in November 1787, at a time when she was probably ill, since she had a premonition of her own death. It was deposited in the parish chest (where...

The British Library holds the manuscript of Miss Bunting.

Another of MMS 's books of this kind was The History of Henry Milner, a little boy, who was not brought up according to the fashions of this world, whose hero is based on...

The British Library copy is 11633 e. 50. EB published it with S. Slow , and dedicated it the fourth Earl of Cardigan (who had recently succeeded to this title and was later created Duke...

Meanwhile, however, in 1963 Nottingham Playhouse moved to new premises, and its three directors, Peter Ustinov , John Neville , and Frank Dunlop , commissioned from various writers including SDa series of short sketch...