British Library

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Publishing Margaret Emily Shore
The fully indexed text received a second edition in 1898 with drawings by MES .
Shore, Margaret Emily. Journal of Emily Shore. Editors Shore, Louisa Catherine and Arabella Shore, Kegan Paul.
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Arabella Shore willed the volumes to the British Museum (now the British Library ), but her will was never...
Publishing Jan Struther
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 ..
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray.
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Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Publishing Christine de Pisan
Both the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the British Library in London have important manuscripts of works by Christine de Pisan , many of them beautifully illuminated. Those at the British Library, including the Queen's...
Publishing Sarah, Lady Pennington
It went through two more London editions this year, and eight by 1789. Each copy of the first four editions ends with SLP 's printed signature or manual sign, S. Pennington (as can be...
Publishing Joanna Southcott
This reached a fourth edition in 1814; a copy of one edition in the British Library contains manuscript notes. This was just one of a number of collections (for instance, The Prophecies of Joanna Southcott...
Publishing Alicia D'Anvers
ADA 's Oxford university satire Academia had a new, anonymous edition (the original owner of the British Library 's copy recorded the full date on the title-page).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Publishing Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
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...
Reception Emily Lawless
Many of EL 's papers survive, although they are scattered. The largest collection is at Marsh's Library in Dublin. Collections of her correspondence survive in the Bodleian Library , Oxford, the Hove Central Library
Reception Rosa Nouchette Carey
The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Reception Amy Levy
For years the British Museum (that part which is now the British Library ) shelved its copy of this poem in the suppressed safe
Ashworth, Jenn. “Amy Levy (1861 - 1888)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 26-39.
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of works so scandalous they had to be read under...
Reception Mary Louisa Molesworth
Mrs. Molesworth made herself a household name early in her career, and remained one for over a generation whenever books for children were discussed or memoirists recalled their early reading. On her death the obituary...
Reception Margery Kempe
The year 2018 was a high point in MK studies, with the first academic conference devoted to her, and the establishment of the Margery Kempe Society . Diane Watt summarized the growth of her reputation...
Reception Andrea Levy
In January 2011 the Richard and Judy Book Club listed Small Island as one of the 100 Books of the Decade.
Carroll, Rachel. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Small Island</span>, Small Screen: Adapting Black British Fiction”. Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, edited by Jeannette Baxter and David James, Palgrave, pp. 65-77.
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The manuscript of it was exhibited at the British Library as part...
Reception Dorothy Osborne
The first printing of DO letters in 1836 was well reviewed by Macaulay two years after it appeared. One recent literary-critical analysis is that of James Fitzmaurice and Martine Rey , Letters by Women in...
Reception J. K. Rowling
In winter 2017-18 a British Library exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, demonstrated how JKR mined old, esoteric texts, and how she worked at planning and structuring the novels.
Rundell, Katherine. “At the British Library”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 24, p. 22.

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