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Textual Production Sarah Grand
SG first appeared in print with her novel Two Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots.
Scholars like Gillian Kersley , Ann Heilmann ...
Textual Production Julian of Norwich
She produced her account first in a shorter and then in a longer version.
Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, pp. 101-24.
103-4
She may have worked on wax tablets which would hold only a short passage at a time, and transferred the...
Textual Production Una Marson
UM 's plays never reached publication, but some playscripts are preserved in the National Library of Jamaica (Pocomania) and the British Library (At What a Price).
Rosenberg, Leah. “Una Marson’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘u’>Pocomania</span> (1938): Class, Gender, and the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism”. Essays in Theatre, Vol.
20
, No. 1, pp. 27-42.
39n1
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press.
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Textual Production Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell translated Lyrics from the Chinese, published this year as her first book.
Biographer Monica Blackett dates this publication 1915, but both the British Library and the Bodleian Library catalogues clearly list an...
Textual Production Charlotte Brontë
CB 's stay in Brussels (as well as contributing eventually to Villette) produced a number of French exercises or devoirs, plus her subsequent letters to Constantin Heger . Four of the letters (of which...
Textual Production Jane Harvey
JH dated her preface 12 February 1806. A former owner of what is now the Bodleian Library copy, who lived at Tynemouth Vicarage, wrote their name in the novel in 1936. The Chawton House Library
Textual Production Philip Larkin
PL began to fill the first of his surviving poetry notebooks. He continued to use it until March 1950, and in 1965 he presented it to the British Library .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Margaret Legge
The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon .
Legge, Margaret. The Price of Stephen Bonyng. Alston Rivers.
prelims
It seems now to be very rare. The Bodleian Library has a copy, but the British Library
Textual Production Jean Middlemass
In the same year JM published two other works in three volumes. One of these, Sackcloth and Broadcloth, contained sketches that drew on her own experience of the clerical life. (Broadcloth is worn by...
Textual Production Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
The series of watercolours by EPS which her husband presented to George III are now in the British Library .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Isabella Whitney
The British Library holds the world's only surviving copy, C. 39 b. 45; again, one cannot tell for certain whether it is a first edition or a re-issue. Richard Jones seems to have marketeed Nicholas Breton
Textual Production Maria Callcott
This appeared as printed for the author. MC says her frontispiece, sketched in 1834, was to be her very last attempt at holding a pencil.
Callcott, Maria. A Description of the Chapel of the Annunziata dell’Arena. Printed for the author by T. Brettell.
prelims
Most of the lavish illustrations were by her...
Textual Production Elizabeth Elstob
These 36 pages in folio, printed at Oxford University Press , survive in the British Library . This fragment, like the sample single homily, has parallel texts: the original Anglo-Saxon and EE 's modern English.The...
Textual Production Rose Hickman
The British Library has three copies of her work, but none is her original. The earliest, most likely made by her son William Hickman around the date of her death, is bound up with an...
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL 's anonymous Sir Edward Grey, K. G. (a Liberal and then Foreign Secretary, later first Viscount Grey of Fallodon ), 1915, is in 2008 ascribed to her in the Bodleian Library but not in...

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