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In her will ALF left all works written by herself and her daughters to one of them, Katherine: this suggests a household of women writers, possibly on domestic subjects. In 1651, with her husband away...

Historian Dorothy L. Latz prints or discusses several of CH 's religious works. A Method to Converse with God, a translation, survives as British Library Harleian MS 3184; Latz suspects CH may have written...

LJL 's writings survive among manuscripts in the British Library , with the shelf-marks Royal MS 15 A. i, ii, and ix.

Matilda Betham published at Ipswich her first book, Elegies, and other Small Poems (including many in ballad metre), dedicated to Lady Jerningham .

The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse (drawn by EC herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus , addressed...

MJY allowed her poem Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches to appear in print attributed only to a Lady.

It seems that LH wrote this book in November 1787, at a time when she was probably ill, since she had a premonition of her own death. It was deposited in the parish chest (where...

The British Library copy is 11633 e. 50. EB published it with S. Slow , and dedicated it the fourth Earl of Cardigan (who had recently succeeded to this title and was later created Duke...

KP 's poems circulated extensively beyond the manuscripts mentioned in Patrick Thomas's edition. The British Library has further scattered texts, including one in KP 's rare holograph and two with musical settings. These have been...

Meanwhile, however, in 1963 Nottingham Playhouse moved to new premises, and its three directors, Peter Ustinov , John Neville , and Frank Dunlop , commissioned from various writers including SDa series of short sketch...

ET 's poems were circulating at least by 1714, in manuscript, or in the opportunistic publications of others, or both. After her death William Duncombe printed one of her imitations of odes by Horace which...

On 12 April 1836 CG wrote in her diary, I am iron now. This was a kind of pun: she meant that her life is altered into one of action, not of sentiment...

Lord George Gordon was arrested on 9 June 1780 and sent to the Tower of London after the anti-Catholic riots bearing his name. He came to trial on 5 February 1781, but was acquitted the...

Her name appeared as Mrs. Kindersley. In the copy now in the British Library someone wrote by her name: Widow of an officer in His Majesty's Army.

EB 's papers survive among various collections in the Bodleian and British Libraries .