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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...

Between them, Mary Howitt and her husband William wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum printed catalogue. Bearing the expenses of a...

MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...

An advertisement had promised this novel for 1 June. The title-page quotation is different for each volume. The third and last volume of the British Library set comes from a second edition published...

It was probably published soon afterwards, though the title-page says 1611. Handsome copies of the title-poem without all of its accompanying or supporting poems were given as gifts to Prince Henry (eldest son of James I

MA 's graphic short story Freeforall, adaptation and art by Christian Ward , appeared in the Guardian newspaper in connection with the British Library exhibition Comics Unmasked.

Fittingly, perhaps, SB 's last two texts were an English prose piece and a French poem: Stirrings Still, 1988, and Comment dire (What is the Word, written in hospital while recovering from...

Many of GC 's last works were privately printed. According to the original Dictionary of National Biography, she first used this means of publication for Quagmire Ahead, 1864, then for A Plea for...

Her husband, already a regular contributor, illustrated some of the children's poems and stories she published there under the pseudonym of Gilbert Percy (made up of the names of her sons). These were collected in...

She brought this account of her life up to her husband's death. The original of this first book is not known to be extant, but a copy made by one of her descendants survives, identified...

She had written the first draft of this story about 1802, when she felt herself to be blindly seeking religion, and her journal was recording dark cries for help. The British Library has...

The British Library copy ends with an advertisement that mentions both SH 's Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina and her Caution to Such as Observe Days and Times—which raises questions about dating.

A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...

The fully indexed text received a second edition in 1898 with drawings by MES .Arabella Shore willed the volumes to the British Museum (now the British Library ), but her will was never...

SSW 's A Visit to London serves to exemplify the difficulty of dating her work (apart from her full-length novels). (It has also been ascribed to Elizabeth Kilner , but the chain of allusive authorship...