British Library

The Play Actors were a London society whose mandate was to encourage new authors, many of them from outside London. The play was never taken on by a regular theatre company, or published until...

MS edited and published A Selection of Poems by Emily Brontë, with an introduction, for the Crown Classics Series published by Grey Walls Press .

RS chose the same publisher as Swetnam's, which seems to indicate a perception of her debate with him as worth pushing along for doctrinal or commercial reasons. The British Library copy (one of eight...

The British Library copy numbered C45 i.5(3) is bound in red velvet which is said to have been used at the funeral of the real-life original of the second story's heroine.

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...

Many of MS 's papers can be found in London, at the British Library and the Wellcome Institute .

Without any knowledge about sexuality, MS was married in Montreal to Canadian botanist Reginald Ruggles Gates ; he turned out to be impotent.

MS took some time to realise there was something wrong with her marriage; reading in the British Museum enlightened her. She left Gates in 1914, and obtained an annulment of the marriage for non-consummation in...

ES published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking...

To train herself as a historian, ES plunged enthusiastically into working in the British Museum at history itself and also the study of early handwriting (palaeography), which she would need for deciphering original sources.

JS 's final poetry volume, A Pocketful of Pebbles, published in New York by Harcourt Brace , is not held by either the British Library or the Bodleian Library ..

When not attending court, the couple probably lived in Yorkshire. A manuscript note in the British Library copy of AS 's book identifies her as of Rodd, which must mean Mayroid.

She spent two years working on this in secret, writing it in a discarded ledger of my father's, which she kept hidden. It was rejected by several firms before being accepted by the old-established...

Of this book (written among the industrial surroundings of Stourbridge in Worcestershire) neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has a copy. By now, however, ASS was issuing several books per year.

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.