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Her inital plan for these last volumes, a social history of humankind during the Christian era, was to divide the material between five separate books of about 210 pages each, and sell them for about...

Henry Colburn exploited the publicity created by the association of CG 's Mrs. Armytage with a sensational murder: it is said that he promptly re-issued the novel.

A Collection of Songs and Poems on Several Occasions written by Isobel Pagan was published at Glasgow: since she was illiterate, she had dictated the text to a friend, William Gemmell .

It was reprinted later in the century, at Salisbury and at Edinburgh, as The Lass at [or on] the Brow of the Hill: from its opening or closing line: At the brow...

The British Library keeps its copy in the special locked cupboard which it reserves for pornographic books: those which it rightly supposes that some members of the reading public may be moved to deface. It...

She dedicated it to a baronet's wife, Lady Cockburn . Since Robinson (who had not published her previous novel) had paid her thirty pounds as long ago as March 1783, it seems that this must...

This date, which heads the future Countess of Bridgewater 's collection of private prayers and meditations (now Egerton MS 607 in the British Library ), may or may not mark the earliest of its contents.

Elizabeth Bunce was a niece or cousin of the poet. She and her husband preserved this poem (perhaps written too late for the volume, perhaps regarded as still too private) with others in transcriptions laid...

OM published her ninth and shortest novel, The Play Room (which appeared the same year in the USA as Camperlea Girls).

The manuscript, which survives in the British Library , is an extraordinary palimpsest of sets of revisions for different versions of the novel: in serialized and volume form, in Britain and the USA.

Besides her diaries, KR left letters, notebooks, and other manuscripts which are now in the British Library and other British and American collections.

According to scholar Helena Kelleher Kahn , the first American edition of ML 's realist novel Christy Carew appeared in 1878, although standard library catalogues record no edition before 1880.

Neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has (in 2019) a copy of this book. Because it was firmly believed at Deutsch, where Athill worked, that short stories by unknown writers were publishing poison...

She describes her motivation like this: My Begining to wright was for amusement, when maloncarly on the Death of Our Great Friend Treasurr Oxford , and the Absence of Mr Caesar , to whom I...

In the same year as Immediate, Not Gradual, AbolitionEH published three further titles on the same topic (none of which is held by the British Library ). They are An Enquiry which of the...