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When she got back to her mother's household in England, Margaret was distressed at the mismanagement of money and frequent lack of food. She was by then sixteen, and keenly felt that she should be...

Since LJL was her father's last surviving heir, his collections (including his library and her manuscripts) passed at his death to her widower. In 1609, they passed into the royal collection, and in due course...

On her father 's death AOK applied to the Royal Literary Fund , which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200.

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...

It was printed for the author, by J. Nourse . CM 's primary publisher for the first four volumes was Thomas Cadell . When she offered to sell him the entire copyright of the still...

OCLC lists forty copies of this publication surviving in libraries (many at bible colleges or theological seminaries), but not one outside North America: the title is not held by the British Library , the Bodleian

She says she had thought of publishing this letter (or a version of it) last winter, but had been persuaded against it. She informed Lord Jersey that she aimed to make just enough...

Two copies are known to survive, at the British Library and at Harvard . Critic Steven Epley assigns this poem to her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, though the English Short Title...

The present BL Egerton MS 607 was at one time owned by the author's descendant Samuel Egerton Brydges . Two contemporary copies of this manuscript, one of them with extensive and important annotation by the...

McMaster University has a copy of SD 's Poems on Several Occasions which contains contemporary manuscript notes, and an extra unpublished poem (on the familiar topic of an abandoned shepherdess) written on pages laid into...

The majority of DR 's papers are held by Yale University 's Beinecke Library . Smaller collections are housed at the British Library , the New York Public Library , the University of Texas at Austin

It appeared before Fox Talbot 's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially...

MC 's journal is British Library Add. MS 62558-9. Some of her letters survive in private hands at Rousham Park in Oxfordshire.

This trip was apparently unsuccessful. Although very many subscriptions were sold at Cambridge , sufficient money eluded her, and the printing of the complete homilies broke off abruptly (in mid-sentence) at the end of the...

The fullest collections of EH 's published writings are held (and listed) at LeicesterReference and Information Library and at the University of Nottingham . Only a minority of them is held by the...