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Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley , it seems that CT wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
117
She, or more probably Elizabeth Carter acting after her...
Textual Production Enid Blyton
The first number appeared of Enid Blyton's Magazine, the month after the end of her previous periodical for children, Sunny Stories.
Her biographer Barbara Stoney gives the title as Enid Blyton Magazine...
Textual Production Frances Cornford
Cornford's papers are kept at the British Library .
Dowson, Jane et al. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xiii - xxv.
xxiv
Some of her letters have been published in Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound, an edition of the works of her son John Cornford .
Textual Production Elizabeth Joscelin
EJ seems to have begun writing when she felt herself quick with child (or first felt the foetus moving inside her); this was also when she ordered her winding-sheet or shroud. Unequivocally, it seems, her...
Textual Production Bathsua Makin
It was dedicated to Queen Anne , wife of James I (who died on 2 March this year). It seems that this was to be printed as a pamphlet; one sample sheet survives in a...
Textual Production Mary Pix
It was published the same year.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
2: 93
The British Library copy (841 e. 6) bears a contemporary note of MP 's name. The prologue (probably by Congreve , though given anonymously)
McKenzie, Donald Francis. “A New Congreve Literary Autograph”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xv
, No. 4, pp. 292-9.
297
implies that...
Textual Production Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
The present BL Egerton MS 607 was at one time owned by the author's descendant Samuel Egerton Brydges . Two contemporary copies of this manuscript, one of them with extensive and important annotation by the...
Textual Production Sarah Dixon
McMaster University has a copy of SD 's Poems on Several Occasions which contains contemporary manuscript notes, and an extra unpublished poem (on the familiar topic of an abandoned shepherdess) written on pages laid into...
Textual Production Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
The British Library copy of this translation by MAS is 1200 a. 30, has a manuscript note giving the original author's name. The pamphlet ends with a list of other works by MAS .
Textual Production Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
The manuscript of her meditations is now in the British Library .
Textual Production Maria Callcott
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.
Callcott, Maria. A Description of the Chapel of the Annunziata dell’Arena. Printed for the author by T. Brettell.
prelims
Most of the lavish illustrations were by her...
Textual Production Elizabeth Elstob
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...
Textual Production Rose Hickman
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...
Textual Production Alethea Lewis
AL 's surviving correspondence with George Crabbe is now British Library MS Egerton 3709A and Bodleian MS Autog. c. 9. The former also contains his correspondence with Mary Leadbeater .
Crabbe, George. Selected Letters and Journals. Editors Faulkner, Thomas C. and Rhonda L. Blair, Clarendon Press.
117, 194
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
The Play Actors were a London society whose mandate was to encourage new authors, many of them from outside London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
272
The play was never taken on by a regular theatre company, or published until...

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