Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley
, it seems that CT
wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 117 |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | CT
must have written this by 1754, when George Berkeley
transcribed it with notes on making use of it for his sermons. His copy (now British Library
Additional MS 46689) is titled Meditations. It... |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | The British Library
holds a number of CT
's letters, her journal, the manuscript of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, and poems (which, however, are not catalogued under her name). It... |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | CT
kept journals which survive in the British Library
. She kept her journal in French when writing about an unidentified man with whom she was in love with in the 1740s. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 112 |
Textual Production | Annie S. Swan | She spent two years working on this in secret, writing it in a discarded ledger of my father's, which she kept hidden. Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 37 |
Textual Production | Annie S. Swan | Of this book (written among the industrial surroundings of Stourbridge in Worcestershire) neither the British Library
nor the Bodleian
has a copy. By now, however, ASS
was issuing several books per year. |
Residence | Alice Sutcliffe | When not attending court, the couple probably lived in Yorkshire. A manuscript note in the British Library
copy of AS
's book identifies her as of Rodd, which must mean Mayroid. Hughey, Ruth. “Forgotten Verses by Ben Jonson, George Wither, and Others to Alice Sutcliffe”. Review of English Studies, Vol. 10 , No. 38, pp. 156-64. 156 and n3 |
Publishing | Jan Struther | JS
's final poetry volume, A Pocketful of Pebbles, published in New York by Harcourt Brace
, is not held by either the British Library
or the Bodleian Library
.. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 253 Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/. |
Author summary | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking... |
Education | Elizabeth Strickland | To train herself as a historian, ES
plunged enthusiastically into working in the British Museum
at history itself and also the study of early handwriting (palaeography), which she would need for deciphering original sources. 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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Stopes | Without any knowledge about sexuality, MS
was married in Montreal to Canadian botanist Reginald Ruggles Gates
; he turned out to be impotent. The ODNB points out that while she published her assertions of his... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Stopes | MS
took some time to realise there was something wrong with her marriage; reading in the British Museum
enlightened her. She left Gates in 1914, and obtained an annulment of the marriage for non-consummation in... |
Textual Production | Marie Stopes | |
Textual Production | Anna Steele | Braintree is only about six miles from Steele's home, Rivenhall Place, and she later published her play, too, locally. This text is not in the Bodleian
or Cambridge University Library
and not listed by... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The British Library
copy numbered C45 i.5(3) is bound in red velvet which is said to have been used at the funeral of the real-life original of the second story's heroine. |
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