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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...

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...

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...

SB 's letter-writing kept her in touch with communities of writers and was a personal lifeline during her isolated years in China. Among her correspondents were Virginia Woolf and Sydney Schiff (Stephen Hudson). Some letters...

LAC was helped with her literary labours by several scribes, notably one Edward Langley . Of the four copies which she dictated and kept at various of her residences, one survives, corrected by herself: in...

She and Pinter decided to sell their manuscripts to the British Library . In July 1994 they went to pay our manuscripts a visit. They found that while Pinter's were stored in conventional box-files, hers...

The parody To Mr Waller upon his panegirique to the Lord Protector is almost certainly by LH ; the ascription rests on Clarendon 's annotation.

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

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...

The date comes from an advertisement in the Monthly Catalogue, which placed the work among miscellaneous pamphlets, not poetry.EB sold the copyright, plus three hundred remaining copies, at B. Creake 's trade...

The chief collection of MD 's manuscripts is at the Central Library , Newport, Monmouthshire. Her autobiography has unfortunately disappeared, but other papers are in the Portland Collection at the University of Nottingham ...

HP was determined that his manuscripts should not go abroad but remain in the British Library . This duly happened, first on loan and then by purchase. At the official handover ceremony in March...

Her authorship of this volume was first revealed in a note in Roger Lonsdale 's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets in 1989. Three copies are known to survive, at the British Library , Yale University ...

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...