Rundell, Katherine. “At the British Library”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 24, p. 22. Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Susanna Haswell Rowson | SHR
's final publication, at Boston two years before her death, was Biblical Dialogues between a Father and his Family in two volumes, a book of family instruction in the Bible. Neither the British Library |
Textual Production | Susanna Haswell Rowson | She dedicated it to a baronet's wife, Lady Cockburn
. Since Robinson
(who had not published her previous novel) had paid her thirty pounds as long ago as March 1783, it seems that this must... |
Reception | J. K. Rowling | In winter 2017-18 a British Library
exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, demonstrated how JKR
mined old, esoteric texts, and how she worked at planning and structuring the novels. Rundell, Katherine. “At the British Library”. London Review of Books, Vol. 39 , No. 24, p. 22. |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | A complete edition of her surviving Letters appeared between 1997 and 2004, edited by Antony H. Harrison
. Rossetti, Christina. The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Editor Harrison, Antony H., University Press of Virginia. |
Publishing | Margaret Roper | Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster... |
Textual Production | Emma Robinson | ER
, as the author of Whitefriars, published Caesar Borgia
, An Historical Romance: the Bodleian
and Cambridge University Library
though not the British Library
hold copies of this edition. 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. 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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | She received £63 for the copyright; 1,250 copies were printed. Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 17 , pp. 191-07. 204n19 Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books. 87 |
Material Conditions of Writing | E. Arnot Robertson | 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
. Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix. x |
Education | Emma Roberts | Her memoirist says her thirst for letters was unquenchable, and the extent of her reading proves that her early years must have been years of application. Unsigned, and Emma Roberts. “Memoir”. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay, W. H. Allen, p. xi - xxviii. xiv |
Material Conditions of Writing | Emma Roberts | For this work, published before her first voyage to India, she did research at the British Museum
. |
Author summary | Margaret Roberts | |
Employer | Michèle Roberts | The first year of her course gave her a position as Library Scholar in the Department of Printed Books at the then British Museum
. She worked on the enquiry desk, then at cataloguing. She... |
Occupation | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement
at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was... |
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 | Kathleen Raine | Besides her diaries, KR
left letters, notebooks, and other manuscripts which are now in the British Library
and other British and American collections. |
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