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Textual Production Charlotte Forman
These letters are now in the British Library among Add. MS 30869-30871. One of them was printed by John Almon in his edition of Wilkes's Correspondence, 1805.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
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During these years she sent Wilkes...
Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...
Textual Production Maude Royden
The Women's Library holds most of MR 's papers (including a folder of correspondence with Ursula Roberts, the writer Susan Miles), while the British Library , Lambeth Palace Library , and the Bodleian Library hold some letters.
“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
“Papers of Ursula Roberts”. AIM25. London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture given at the University of Wales , Swansea, was published the same year under the title Donkey Business; donkey work: magic and metamorphosis in contemporary opera...
Textual Production Sarah Green
The literary-critical preface, unusually for such a satirical work, bears her intials. Green says she has reasons for concealing her name, but will affix the REAL initials of that name to this advertisement. ....
Textual Production Mary Ann Kelty
This novel is rare (not listed in OCLC WorldCat) though the British Library has two copies.
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.
The similarity of the heroine's name to that of Eliza Rivers in MAK 's first novel suggests some...
Textual Production Andrea Levy
In 2018 Back to my Own Country was featured as one of the British Library 's Windrush Stories, marking the seventieth anniversary of the docking of the Empire Windrush, one of the first ships...
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
Her papers are held at the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada . Letters to her publisher Richard Bentley are available in the British Library .
Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada.
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
A Man and Some Women was never published. A typescript is available in the Lord Chamberlain's collection at the British Library .
Textual Production Harriet Downing
HD composed an Ode on Qu[een] Victoria 's Coronation, of which a copy survives in the British Library .
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.
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.
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Textual Production Mary Julia Young
Her title-page lists many of the poems contained in the volume. Once again it bears her name and mentions her authorship of a novel, Rose-Mount Castle. An engraved frontispiece, dated 1 March 1801, shows...
Textual Production Elizabeth Avery
EA wrote this work at Newbury in Berkshire, as a childless wife who had lost four children to death and had recently gone through the experience of religious despair followed by assurances of her...
Textual Production Ann Candler
The title-page read Poetical Attempts By Ann Candler, A Suffolk Cottager, with a Short Narrative of her Life. The British Library copy (shelfmark 11632 aa. 11) contains some manuscript notes. Part of her text...
Textual Production Margaret Hoby
She almost certainly kept it for religious reasons. The period covered is one of generally uneventful life in the country, at Hackness in North Yorkshire, with occasional visits to London. Parts of the...

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