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Wealth and Poverty | Marjorie Bowen | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Lady Jane Lumley | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | 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. This estimate... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Toulmin Smith | 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... |
Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | As she became more deeply involved in politics in late 1782, Georgiana Devonshire
expressed a hope to become one day a faithful historian of the secret history of the times. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 94 |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | This rare little work, held by the Université Laval
and the University of Alberta
Library (courtesy of the constituent Collège Saint-Jean
), is not listed in the catalogues of the British Library
, Bodleian Library |
Textual Production | Annie Louisa Walker | The British Library
and Bodleian Library
hold only an undated edition for which they surmise a date of 1894. The unique Cornell
copy of the Homespun Series edition listed by OCLC WorldCat includes publisher's advertisements. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Maria Abdy | Between 1838 and 1862 seven more volumes were privately printed, under the same title. 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. 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 | Medora Gordon Byron | A play entitled Zameo, acted this year, was printed with Jane Briancourt
's account of its supposed author as Memoir of Medora Gordon Byron. As the facts are given, this cannot be the... |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | This is the first item in her Collected Works, which divides her life into four periods and treats within each period speeches (where they exist), letters, poems, and prayers. This edition excludes her translations... |
Textual Production | Georgette Heyer | The British Library
holds her correspondence with the Society of Authors
, and Duke University
her mass of literary notes and drafts. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | Her papers are widely scattered. In England the British Library
, the Bodleian Library
, the John Rylands Library
, and Berkshire County Library
hold important material; so do Harvard University Library
and the Huntington Library |
Textual Production | Jane Barker | Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library
and at Magdalen College
, Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar |
Textual Production | Mary Chandler | The British Library
copy is 11630 h. 7. This edition was inscribed to Princess Amelia
(one of George II
's daughters, who had twice visited Bath). Chandler, Mary. A Description of Bath. James Leake. title-page |
Textual Production | Lady Jane Lumley | LJL
's writings survive among manuscripts in the British Library
, with the shelf-marks Royal MS 15 A. i, ii, and ix. |