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At her death Georgiana left all her voluminous letters and papers to the care of Lady Elizabeth Foster . Lady Elizabeth no doubt took decisions as to what to save and what to destroy that...

The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon . It seems now to be very rare. The Bodleian Library has a copy, but the British Library

In the same year JM published two other works in three volumes. One of these, Sackcloth and Broadcloth, contained sketches that drew on her own experience of the clerical life. (Broadcloth is worn by...

The series of watercolours by EPS which her husband presented to George III are now in the British Library .

The British Library holds the world's only surviving copy, C. 39 b. 45; again, one cannot tell for certain whether it is a first edition or a re-issue. Richard Jones seems to have marketeed Nicholas Breton

In old age QEI translated Boethius, Plutarch, Tacitus , and Horace. Most of this work was printed as Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, 1899. Her rendering of the opening passage of Petrarch 's The Triumph of...

One manuscript note in the British Library copy ascribes this to Eliza Coltman (which could mean either EH , called by her birth name, or her mother ), while another note re-ascribes it to Mr...

MBL 's anonymous Sir Edward Grey, K. G. (a Liberal and then Foreign Secretary, later first Viscount Grey of Fallodon ), 1915, is in 2008 ascribed to her in the Bodleian Library but not in...

The anonymous three-volume novel Pique, A Tale of the English Aristocracy was probably FN 's first; its authorship was alluded to two years later on the title page of her Agatha Beaufort; or, Family Pride...

Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...

HMC 's surviving letters span the years both before and after her marriage. Apart from her best-known letters, exchanged with Richardson himself, Richardson's circle, and other Bluestockings of the original generation, she corresponded with Frances Burney

CY anonymously published her first novel, Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit.

EF 's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to...

Some of MB 's letters survive in the British Library .

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...