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Publishing Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bridges had already been trying the water by introducing a few individual Hopkins poems into anthologies. Only 750 copies of this edition were printed. The British Library copy contains manuscript notes by C. H. Wilkinson
Publishing Elizabeth Beverley
The British Library holds two copies printed in 1818, allegedly the fifth and seventh editions.
Publishing Clara Codd
CC was a prolific writer on her faith. Between 1917 and 1947, she published a number of books and pamphlets: Looking Forward: The Coming Faith and the Coming Social Order (1918), On Lecturing and Lecture...
Publishing Mary Chandler
She dedicated it to her doctor brother John , saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, pp. 33-49.
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that is, to appear in print before the public. She said it was...
Publishing Susanna Hopton
George Hickes believed this work to be by SH . He also noted that a section added to it in 1688 in a form then titled The Sacrifice of a devout Christian was identified by...
Publishing Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
EPW published at Lichfield her Fairy Tales in Verse.
The title-page of the Bodleian Library copy (bound into the composite volume mentioned above, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059) says this work was published at...
Publishing Amelia Opie
She published it with Longman , bearing her name. It was one of several tributes to this statesman, who died aged thirty-six and, as AO put it, distinguished by a nation's praise.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 36 (1802): 476
Reception Sylvia Plath
In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez (who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time ....
Reception Rose Allatini
At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed...
Reception Dorothy Osborne
The first printing of DO letters in 1836 was well reviewed by Macaulay two years after it appeared. One recent literary-critical analysis is that of James Fitzmaurice and Martine Rey , Letters by Women in...
Reception J. K. Rowling
In winter 2017-18 a British Library exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, demonstrated how JKR mined old, esoteric texts, and how she worked at planning and structuring the novels.
Rundell, Katherine. “At the British Library”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 24, p. 22.
Reception Jane Lead
Several of JL 's works now in the British Library were formerly owned by the artist and scene-painter Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg , who left annotations in a few of them.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Reception Anne Grant
AG 's popularly best-known poem today (though it is known without her name) must be Oh where, tell me where, is your Highland Laddie gone?. The British Library catalogue lists under Grant's name a...
Reception Sarah Grand
At her death, SG left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall , daughter of Haldane McFall .
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press.
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Her letters and papers are now...
Reception Jo Shapcott
JS is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and in 1997 she held the position of Penguin Writers Fellow at the British Library . She was made a CBE (Commander of the...

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