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Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
The majority of DR 's papers are held by Yale University 's Beinecke Library . Smaller collections are housed at the British Library , the New York Public Library , the University of Texas at Austin
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.
The British Library has two editions which include personal notes to friends.
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/.
Beginning in the 1990s Arrow Booksbeautifully repackaged and reissued almost sixty of...
Textual Production Anna Seward
The British Library copy is 11631 c. 2.
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.
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The edition printed at Bath in 1736 was...
Textual Production Edith Mary Moore
The publisher was C. W. Daniel and Co. The title-page gives the author's name as Mary Moore, but it seems clear from its content that it is by EMM . (The cataloguer for the...
Textual Production Mathilde Blind
Some of MB 's letters survive in the British Library .
Textual Production Maria Susanna Cooper
She identified herself on the title-page as the Authoress of the Exemplary Mother, and used Dodsley , her usual publisher. She dedicated her novel in its new form to Letitia, Lady Beauchamp-Proctor (wife of the...
Textual Production Rumer Godden
The British Library , however, has three copies.
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.
Textual Production Maria Elizabetha Jacson
This book appeared, like her next, as by a Lady; the British Library copy (filmed for Eighteenth Century Collections Online) has a manuscript note identifying the author on the printed testimony of Erasmus...
Textual Production Catharine Macaulay
There is no extensive collection of manuscripts by CM , but letters by her are held in various libraries in the USA: the Rhode Island Historical Society , the Boston Public Library , the...
Textual Production Emma Parker
The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still.
Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby.
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Feminist Companion Archive.
The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...

Timeline

20 October 1940: 10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish...

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20 October 1940

10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish newspapers held by the British Museum were destroyed and a further 15,000 were damaged by bombing at Colindale north of London.

25 October 1997: The Round Reading Room at the British Library...

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25 October 1997

The Round Reading Room at the British Library was finally closed.

7 February 2007: First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded...

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7 February 2007

First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year prize (worth £25,000) for her novelThe Tenderness of Wolves.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

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