Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta.
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | The British Library
copy is 11633 e. 50. EB
published it with S. Slow
, and dedicated it the fourth Earl of Cardigan
(who had recently succeeded to this title and was later created Duke... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Boyd | The British Library
copy, anonymous, with six printers' names listed on its title-page, is 1489 m. 14. The title-page of a re-issue, probably with cancelled title-page (copies at Leeds
and |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | The British Library
copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood
(prompter at Drury Lane
) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | Her title-page uses the pseudonym Eloisa; her letter-writers are Eugenia and Montezella. EB
emphasises, however, that she had no help in writing the work; and she published for herself. She intended this as a... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | The date comes from an advertisement in the Monthly Catalogue, which placed the work among miscellaneous pamphlets, not poetry. Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta. 44n2 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | She dedicated it to her patron Lady Hertford
. The British Library
copy is 12604 ccc. 7. Harvard University
holds the only known copy of an undated set of subscription proposals, which is headed Any... |
Textual Production | Hannah Brand | It was printed at Norwich and sold through London publishers. The subscription list was impressive, including Anna Letitia Barbauld
, John Brand (presumably HB
's brother) of Hemingston Hall in Suffolk, who took twenty copies... |
Textual Production | Angela Brazil | AB
hit her stride this year, publishing many contributions to magazines as well as several books, including The Nicest Girl in the School, which proved her most popular text: it sold 153,000 copies. Freeman... |
Textual Production | Angela Brazil | She wrote the plays in Wales, where she used to entertain the local children with impromptu stories. Neither the British Library
nor the Bodleian
has a copy of the original: the former has a... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
married Polish poet and novelist Jerzy Pietrkiewicz
(later Peterkiewicz), whom she had met at the British Library
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 231 Brooke-Rose, Christine. Remake. Carcanet. 138 |
Education | Christine Brooke-Rose | After being demobbed from her wartime position at Bletchley she had spent some time reading daily in the British Library
(then the British Museum reading room) to prepare for the entrance exams to Somerville. Brooke-Rose, Christine. Remake. Carcanet. 137 |
Literary Setting | Christine Brooke-Rose | This novel uses medieval allegory to resolve the linguistic, psychological, and intellectual fragmentation of its heroine, Julia. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 25 |
Textual Production | Rhoda Broughton | After this RB
continued regularly to publish further novels: Between Two Stools (1912), Concerning a Vow (1914), and A Thorn in the Flesh (1917), of which OCLC WorldCat lists five copies in North America, though... |
Publishing | Frances Browne | Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie
recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable... |
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