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Reception Sarah Grand
At her death, SG left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall , daughter of Haldane McFall .
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press.
334-5, 100
Her letters and papers are now...
Reception Rosa Nouchette Carey
The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Reception Jane Lead
Several of JL 's works now in the British Library were formerly owned by the artist and scene-painter Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg , who left annotations in a few of them.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Reception Emily Lawless
Many of EL 's papers survive, although they are scattered. The largest collection is at Marsh's Library in Dublin. Collections of her correspondence survive in the Bodleian Library , Oxford, the Hove Central Library
Reception Margery Kempe
The year 2018 was a high point in MK studies, with the first academic conference devoted to her, and the establishment of the Margery Kempe Society . Diane Watt summarized the growth of her reputation...
Reception Jo Shapcott
JS is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and in 1997 she held the position of Penguin Writers Fellow at the British Library . She was made a CBE (Commander of the...
Reception Dorothy White
A note in the British Library copy records (with some confusion about dates) that someone nailed this to the church door at Wickhamford in Worcestershire, during the Christmas season.
Reception Shelagh Delaney
In her home town of Salford a Delaney Theatre Group was launched in 2017 and an affordable housing development was named Delaney Heights, . On 25 May 2018 the British Library held an evening event...
Reception Joan Whitrow
The poet Pope was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for...
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
Residence Mary Matilda Betham
She left London during her crisis or breakdown in the years 1818-30, but returned there for her last years. She lodged in Lamb's Conduit Street, handy for reading in the old Reading-rooms of dismal...
Residence Harriet Martineau
Living as a writer made it highly desirable to move to London in order to have access to the British Museum 's Reading Room and to publishing opportunities. She defended her decision to her mother...
Textual Features Lady Mary Walker
Meanwhile, Lady Frances begins by building one hundred dwellings (designed by Capability Brown ) to house artisans and workmen, and proceeds to construct a museum, library, astronomical observatory, an anatomy room, studios, a botanical garden...
Textual Features Edna Lyall
Seven years into the story, Erica is earning money by journalism (she enjoys working in the homelike reading room of the British Museum ). Brian has admitted to himself that he is in love with...
Textual Features Elizabeth Elstob
EE 's preliminary list of names suggests considerable research work: it includes several ancient or Anglo-Saxon women as well as Mary Astell , Anne Bacon , Katherine Chidley (as the pamphlet antagonist of Thomas Edwards

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