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Textual Production Damaris Masham
They used these names in correspondence for seven years.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
315
Their letters survive in the British Library and the Bodleian , and are printed in Locke's Correspondence.
Textual Production Laura Ormiston Chant
A prolific poet throughout her career, LOC also wrote songs and composed music for them. The British Library attributes the following (along with a number of other poetic and musical works) to Chant in its...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
A complete edition of her surviving Letters appeared between 1997 and 2004, edited by Antony H. Harrison .
Rossetti, Christina. The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Editor Harrison, Antony H., University Press of Virginia.
Harrison notes that few letters to her mother or sister exist since she was in the habit...
Textual Production Eliza Fay
The full title was Her Original Letters from India; containing a narrative of a journey through Egypt: and the author's imprisonment at Calicut by Hyder Ally. To which is added, an Abstract of Three Subsequent...
Textual Production Elizabeth Montagu
EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...
Textual Production Anne, Lady Southwell
ALS wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems...
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
With PG 's name appeared the designation author of the History of Lady Louisa Stroud. There are copies of The Niece, now rare, at the British Library and Chawton House Library . PG
Textual Production John Strange Winter
In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...
Textual Production Anne Irwin
It is humbly inscrib'd
Irwin, Anne. Castle-Howard. Printed by E. Owen.
title-page
to her father , and handsomely printed in twenty pages. The British Library copy is 163 n.44.
Textual Production Anne Irwin
Pope's poem was two years old, but the Gentleman's Magazine had recently reprinted it. Ashley Cowper kept a copy of AI 's riposte, attributed to her by name, in his Family Miscellany, British Library
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
Her title-page uses the pseudonym Eloisa; her letter-writers are Eugenia and Montezella. EB emphasises, however, that she had no help in writing the work; and she published for herself. She intended this as a...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
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.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
112
Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
The title is a complex allusion to traditional gender roles, specifically to the sex appeal of male martial prowess. John Dryden 's line None but the brave deserve the fair (itself in context a propaganda...
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
Her title-page lists many of the poems contained in the volume. Once again it bears her name and mentions her authorship of a novel, Rose-Mount Castle. An engraved frontispiece, dated 1 March 1801, shows...
Textual Production Rudyard Kipling
All five were among the first six volumes in the India Railway Library . Their covers bore illustrations by Kipling's father, Lockwood .
Stewart, James McGregor. Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliographical Catalogue. Editor Yeats, A. W., Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press.
40-67 passim
All were quickly issued at London. The British Library holds...

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