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At her death Georgiana left all her voluminous letters and papers to the care of Lady Elizabeth Foster . Lady Elizabeth no doubt took decisions as to what to save and what to destroy that...

The poem's title-page announces its publication date. The second edition, published the same year is the only one listed by OCLC WorldCat or held by the British Library . It carried an advertisement of the...

Sales were disappointing. Today OCLC lists only a single copy as extant, in the New York Public Library . In fact the British Library also has a copy, in which a manuscript note attributes the...

Again she published for the Author, through Darton, Harvey and Darton . This work is claimed for EH by the list of her writings held at LeicesterReference and Information Library , but...

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...

The dedication is signed Maria Barrell, though the title-page renders this in at least some copies as Maria Arrell. Scholar Janet Todd notes that MB focused on the issue of imprisonment for debtors and...

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...

Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany) and John Wesley had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.) Both Pendarves

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...

Numbers of Ferrar manuscripts remain in the Bodleian Library , the British Library , Cambridge University Library , and the library of Magdalene College, Cambridge . Various selections have been edited: by...

The title of the series (used in the Bodleian though not in the British Library catalogue) was Tales for the People and their Children. Following the British Libary dating (since authorities differ) MC's own...

The British Library copy is missing two pages. The work was printed in Bloomsbury and Published for the Authoress...

The British Library also holds MB 'unpublished autobiography, an unfinished fragment in 55 pages.

Of this book (written among the industrial surroundings of Stourbridge in Worcestershire) neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has a copy. By now, however, ASS was issuing several books per year.

The poem is dedicated by their sincere admirer, the author, to those, whose dramatic excellence suggested it.MJY did not claim it with her name until its re-issue with other poems in 1795...