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From the time of her marriage Lady CG took a keen interest in Welsh culture. When attention to her first baby left her short of leisure time, her Welsh studies took priority while Persian lapsed...

MR wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz to put her name on some of...

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...

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...

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...

The British Library paid over £30,000 for WC 's archive: not only papers, but electronic texts: a server hosting Cope's email correspondence.

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...

The novel was reprinted in volume form in 1880 by J. and R. Maxwell .

After the queen's accession, MB presented her with a splendid manuscript copy in a velvet binding, which is now in the British Library : Harleian MS 1860, bearing the title of A Paper-Book in small...

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 ..

This work, published at Cambridge, is held by Cambridge University Library though not by either the British Library or the Bodleian .

The British Library possesses only the Boston, Massachusetts, edition of HM 's French Wines and Politics, while the five copies of the London edition listed by OCLC WorldCat are all in the USA...

A second edition appeared in 1805 and a fifth in 1807. An undated one from William Darton , which claims to be the eighth, is dated by the British Library to around 1830.

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...

Again she wrote at Rungstedlund, first in English and then in Danish. She had her English manuscript conveyed in the diplomatic pouch of Sweden (a neutral country) to Random House in New York...