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Textual Production Maria Susanna Cooper
She identified herself on the title-page as the Authoress of the Exemplary Mother, and used Dodsley , her usual publisher. She dedicated her novel in its new form to Letitia, Lady Beauchamp-Proctor (wife of the...
Textual Production Rumer Godden
The British Library , however, has three 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.
Textual Production Maria Elizabetha Jacson
This book appeared, like her next, as by a Lady; the British Library copy (filmed for Eighteenth Century Collections Online) has a manuscript note identifying the author on the printed testimony of Erasmus...
Textual Production Angela Brazil
AB hit her stride this year, publishing many contributions to magazines as well as several books, including The Nicest Girl in the School, which proved her most popular text: it sold 153,000 copies.
Freeman...
Textual Production Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
At her death Georgiana left all her voluminous letters and papers to the care of Lady Elizabeth Foster . Lady Elizabeth no doubt took decisions as to what to save and what to destroy that...
Textual Production Una Marson
UM 's plays never reached publication, but some playscripts are preserved in the National Library of Jamaica (Pocomania) and the British Library (At What a Price).
Rosenberg, Leah. “Una Marson’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘u’>Pocomania</span> (1938): Class, Gender, and the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism”. Essays in Theatre, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 27-42.
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Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press.
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Textual Production Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell translated Lyrics from the Chinese, published this year as her first book.
Biographer Monica Blackett dates this publication 1915, but both the British Library and the Bodleian Library catalogues clearly list an...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
In old age QEI translated Boethius, Plutarch, Tacitus , and Horace. Most of this work was printed as Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, 1899. Her rendering of the opening passage of Petrarch 's The Triumph of...
Textual Production Elizabeth Heyrick
One manuscript note in the British Library copy ascribes this to Eliza Coltman (which could mean either EH , called by her birth name, or her mother ), while another note re-ascribes it to Mr...
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
CL later said she was writing verses before she had finished learning to read. Thomas Birch preserved a copy in English and a Latin translation of The Dream, an Ode, which she had written...
Textual Production Margaret Minifie
Though she did not set her name to this novel, her listing of an earlier title which did name her leaves her authorship in no doubt. Nevertheless, as The English Novel 1770-1829 notes, this too...
Textual Production Constance Smedley
An appendix, Women and the State by Ethel Snowden , was reprinted from the January number of The World's Work, giving a brief history of women in local government and public positions.
Smedley, Constance, and Mrs Philip Snowden. Woman: A Few Shrieks!. Garden City Press.
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The...
Textual Production Maria Barrell
The dedication is signed Maria Barrell, though the title-page renders this in at least some copies as Maria Arrell.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Scholar Janet Todd notes that MB focused on the issue of imprisonment for debtors and...
Textual Production Sarah Chapone
Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany) and John Wesley had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.)
Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, pp. 1-16.
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Both Pendarves
Textual Production Mary Ferrar
Numbers of Ferrar manuscripts remain in the Bodleian Library , the British Library , Cambridge University Library , and the library of Magdalene College, Cambridge .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Nicholas Ferrar
Various selections have been edited: by...

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