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This appeared as printed for the author. MC says her frontispiece, sketched in 1834, was to be her very last attempt at holding a pencil. Most of the lavish illustrations were by her...

Literary historian Ann B. Shteir thinks AS may be the author of The Backwardness of the Spring Accounted For, a poem written into a copy of Linnaeus 's A System of Vegetables, 1783...

These 36 pages in folio, printed at Oxford University Press , survive in the British Library . This fragment, like the sample single homily, has parallel texts: the original Anglo-Saxon and EE 's modern English.The...

The British Library has three copies of her work, but none is her original. The earliest, most likely made by her son William Hickman around the date of her death, is bound up with an...

HM was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay

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...

The two writers' vast journal, kept over many years, was not originally intended for publication but soon developed into a more self-consciously produced collaborative text by MF . Excerpts were published by T. Sturge Moore

SH published a signed broadside, A Word of Advice and Warning to Handicrafts-men, Labourers, Carmen, Coachmen, Chairmen, &c.

There is no extensive collection of manuscripts by CM , but letters by her are held in various libraries in the USA: the Rhode Island Historical Society , the Boston Public Library , the...

The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still. The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...

This reached print only two years before a book on the same outrageously camp figure by a younger writer, Brigid Brophy . The British Library keeps its copy in the category of books likely to...

SG first appeared in print with her novel Two Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots.

LMS also contributed to a collection issued by the Royal Society of Literature in 1931: Essays by Divers Hands (edited by Sir Francis Younghusband ). She wrote the forewords to Lorna Keeling Connard's part-verse...

She produced her account first in a shorter and then in a longer version. She may have worked on wax tablets which would hold only a short passage at a time, and transferred the...

LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...