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Textual Production Florence Nightingale
While travelling to and through Egypt, FN kept a diary. It was thought until recently that only one diary survived from this trip, the one covering the period 1 January-15 July 1850, held at...
Textual Production Marie Stopes
Many of MS 's papers can be found in London, at the British Library and the Wellcome Institute .
Textual Production Frances Wright
The play was published the same year by Matthew Carey at Philadelphia. A London edition followed in 1822. The British Library holds copies of each edition containing manuscript notes.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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 Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
As she became more deeply involved in politics in late 1782, Georgiana Devonshire expressed a hope to become one day a faithful historian of the secret history of the times.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
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She later recorded the...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
This rare little work, held by the Université Laval and the University of Alberta Library (courtesy of the constituent Collège Saint-Jean ), is not listed in the catalogues of the British Library , Bodleian Library
Textual Production Angela Thirkell
The British Library holds the manuscript of Miss Bunting.
Textual Production Maria Abdy
Between 1838 and 1862 seven more volumes were privately printed, under the same title.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The British Library has two editions which include personal notes to friends.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
Another of MMS 's books of this kind was The History of Henry Milner, a little boy, who was not brought up according to the fashions of this world, whose hero is based on...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
In old age QEI translated Boethius, Plutarch, Tacitus , and Horace. Most of this work was printed as Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, 1899. Her rendering of the opening passage of Petrarch 's The Triumph of...
Textual Production Elizabeth Heyrick
One manuscript note in the British Library copy ascribes this to Eliza Coltman (which could mean either EH , called by her birth name, or her mother ), while another note re-ascribes it to Mr...
Textual Production Una Marson
UM 's plays never reached publication, but some playscripts are preserved in the National Library of Jamaica (Pocomania) and the British Library (At What a Price).
Rosenberg, Leah. “Una Marson’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘u’>Pocomania</span> (1938): Class, Gender, and the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism”. Essays in Theatre, Vol.
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Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press.
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Textual Production Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell translated Lyrics from the Chinese, published this year as her first book.
Biographer Monica Blackett dates this publication 1915, but both the British Library and the Bodleian Library catalogues clearly list an...
Textual Production Lady Anne Barnard
Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...
Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC 's surviving letters span the years both before and after her marriage. Apart from her best-known letters, exchanged with Richardson himself, Richardson's circle, and other Bluestockings of the original generation, she corresponded with Frances Burney

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