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Between them, Mary Howitt and her husband William wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum printed catalogue. Bearing the expenses of a...

ES published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking...

MR wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz to put her name on some of...

The book bears her name, in the form Adélaïde D. O'Keeffe: an apparent de-anglicization.

It was probably published soon afterwards, though the title-page says 1611. Handsome copies of the title-poem without all of its accompanying or supporting poems were given as gifts to Prince Henry (eldest son of James I

The British Library possesses only the Boston, Massachusetts, edition of HM 's French Wines and Politics, while the five copies of the London edition listed by OCLC WorldCat are all in the USA...

She received £63 for the copyright; 1,250 copies were printed. The portrait in the British Library copy is an insertion, although the English Short Title Catalogue mentions it as integral to the edition.

The novel was reprinted in volume form in 1880 by J. and R. Maxwell .

A second edition appeared in 1805 and a fifth in 1807. An undated one from William Darton , which claims to be the eighth, is dated by the British Library to around 1830.

Fittingly, perhaps, SB 's last two texts were an English prose piece and a French poem: Stirrings Still, 1988, and Comment dire (What is the Word, written in hospital while recovering from...

Many of GC 's last works were privately printed. According to the original Dictionary of National Biography, she first used this means of publication for Quagmire Ahead, 1864, then for A Plea for...

Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster...

MA 's graphic short story Freeforall, adaptation and art by Christian Ward , appeared in the Guardian newspaper in connection with the British Library exhibition Comics Unmasked.

The British Library copy ends with an advertisement that mentions both SH 's Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina and her Caution to Such as Observe Days and Times—which raises questions about dating.

Both the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the British Library in London have important manuscripts of works by Christine de Pisan , many of them beautifully illuminated. Those at the British Library, including the Queen's...