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Textual Production Susanna Moodie
Her papers are held at the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada . Letters to her publisher Richard Bentley are available in the British Library .
Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada.
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
A Man and Some Women was never published. A typescript is available in the Lord Chamberlain's collection at the British Library .
Textual Production Dorothea Du Bois
Its full title was The Case of Ann, Countess of Anglesey, lately Deceased, lawful wife of Richard Annesley, late Earl of Anglesey , and of her three surviving Daughters, Lady Dorothea, Lady Caroline, and Lady...
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.
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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 Beryl Bainbridge
She claimed in 2004 to have in her house a whole trunkful of literary manuscripts which she had tried unsuccessfully to sell. Two girls from the British Library took a look and promised to send...
Textual Production Ann, Lady Fanshawe
The extant manuscript of Ann Fanshawe 's Memoirs of her late husband was transcribed this month. This copy is now British Library Additional MS 41161.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 91-9.
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Textual Production Bathsua Makin
The title-page, in Latin, names her father as well as herself, mentions her tender age, and bears epigraphs in Greek and French. The British Library copy has a note on its final page in the...
Textual Production Mary Pix
MP 's comedy The Different Widows; or, Intrigue all-a-Mode, was anonymously published, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury .
The widowed Countess of Salisbury was also celebrated by Anne Finch . A manuscript note...
Textual Production Anna Trapnel
AT issued a tract entitled either A Voice for the King of Saints and Nations or A Lively Voice for the King of Saints and Nations.
The British Library 's copy, apparently a unique...
Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
Matilda Betham published at Ipswich her first book, Elegies, and other Small Poems (including many in ballad metre), dedicated to Lady Jerningham .
The British Library has a copy of this work published in London...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cobbold
The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse (drawn by EC herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus , addressed...
Textual Production Lucy Hutton
It seems that LH wrote this book in November 1787, at a time when she was probably ill, since she had a premonition of her own death. It was deposited in the parish chest (where...
Textual Production Mary Masters
The Bodleian Library has some letters of MM 's: MS Eng. Letters d. 45; others are in North Yorkshire Record Office, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , and in the British Library .
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Masters.
Oddly, both...
Textual Production Janet Schaw
The first copy uncovered by scholars is now Egerton MS 2423 in the British Library collections. At the date when the work appeared in print, the Vetch manuscript was owned and kept private by Schaw...

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