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When HT 's manuscript was acquired by Gerald Sattin a large number of letters and other papers were destroyed. In the view of his son, their editor, the Memoirs were the only important materials to...

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...

Apart from the letters to Trench and others printed in The Leadbeater Papers, ML 's letters to George Crabbe are now British Library MS Egerton 3709A. Her diary, now in the National Library of Ireland

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...

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...

The young writer allegedly authored one or more essays about Jersey for a book by her mentor Henry David Inglis that must be his The Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Aldernay &c. (The Results of a...

The possibility that MM authored other poems, either among the contents of British Library (MS Add. 18,044), which includes some signed work by several people she knew, or the tombstone inscription for her third husband...

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. During these years she sent Wilkes...

VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939. 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...

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. ....

This novel is rare (not listed in OCLC WorldCat) though the British Library has two copies. The similarity of the heroine's name to that of Eliza Rivers in MAK 's first novel suggests some...

FM was a speedy typist, and composed at the typewriter. She kept a notebook for jotting ideas for plots and episodes. She believed the business aspects of a literary career were more important than many...

HD composed an Ode on Qu[een] Victoria 's Coronation, of which a copy survives in the British Library .

EU drew her material here from manuscripts in the British Museum (now the British Library ) as well as from old printed books. She aimed at re-introducing to English readers a cycle of old...

Smith provides a thorough summary of the state of librarianship as a profession at the time. She notes that even for men, librarianship is a fledgling profession, so that women seeking to join it may...