Dr Williams' Library

Isabella Neil Harwood was born, most probably in England since her family was living at Bridport in Dorset at the time. She was an only child.

On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson recorded in his diary meeting JB and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger ). In his account of this pleasant evening...

The attribution to her in some quarters of Astell 's Serious Proposal (published in July 1694 as by a Lover of her Sex) may have made DM wish to distance herself from Astell. Here...

EF 's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to...

Many of MH 's letters are in the Pforzheimer Library in New York, others at Dr Williams' Library in London. Annie Wedd (her great-great-niece) edited MH 's letters to Eccles, then Fenwick's letters...

She intended it as a record of the workings of my heart. Such a record was important in what Patricia Crawford has described as the family ideology of the Henrys. Diaries by SS 's...