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The unexplained tendency of reference sources to call her Elizabeth West instead of Elisabeth Wast (the name printed on the title-page of her book in its first edition) has caused that edition, which is not...

MG says that having been a good girl too long, she chose fiction as an opportunity not to censor her voice to meet the demands of home, or the education system, or boyfriends, not to...

In 1849 FPC produced a lengthy manuscript titled An Essay on True Religion Being a reply to the question Why are you a Deist? Critic Sally Mitchell compares it to a competent doctoral thesis.

After her previous book EL heard about the existence of typewriters, bought one, and learned in three weeks to use it. She put research as well as Suffolk memories into this novel, working on...

In an author's note GHS regrets being unable to list the books she used for research: Unfortunately, my list of titles was a minor casualty of last year's blitz at the British Museum .

PL did extensive research for this book—she says the British Library was her mainstay. A reviewer called it part memoir, part social history; yet because of its personal centre PL denies that...

EAR 's novel Four Frightened People was set more entirely than her previous one in Malaya (where the author had never been). It relied on her research at the British Museum .

DW 's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie , Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie...

The title continues: Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century.EOB researched this book in the British Museum Library , where Samuel Carter Hall thought...

She began work on the Villon book in the British Museum when that had just reopened after the war, and finished it in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It has an introduction by Denis Saurat .

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

For this work, published before her first voyage to India, she did research at the British Museum .

This 70,000-word retelling of Sir Thomas Malory was produced within six weeks, including research at the then British Museum , to fulfil a contract between Weidenfeld and Nicolson and the retail chain Marks and Spencer

While she was attending the Slade Art School in London, MB became completely discouraged about her prospects as an artist and began to write. At around the age of fourteen she had written a number...

SM 's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church . Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in...