Grace, Lady Gethin,. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Frances, Lady Norton, Printed by D. Edwards for the author.
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Textual Production | Mary Linskill | For Pity's Sake, which appeared posthumously, was, says Cordelia Stamp
, the last novel that ML
wrote—or rather the last she worked at, revising it from an early story. This book is not listed... |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | To a collection entitled Myself When Young, edited by Lady Asquith
(Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith), SP
contributed an essay discussing her childhood and early education. The Countess of Oxford and Asquith, wife... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | The Bodleian Library
holds a small collection of ES
's papers in thirty-nine volumes and boxes: diaries for 1920-37 and 1942-7, and documents relating to women's employment and women's suffrage, many letters written by her... |
Textual Production | Jane West | The Bodleian Library
copy has an errata slip pasted in. |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | This is a kind of specialised visitors' book. Its pages are forms to be filled in by the owner's friends, giving name and address, where and when they met the owner, and under the heading... |
Textual Features | John Millington Synge | It was his first three-act play. Like Riders to the Sea, it drew its inspiration from the folklore of the Aran Islands. It was published at the end of the same year, in... |
Textual Features | Margaret Fell | She does not argue an inherent right in all women to speak, but the right of selected women in specific circumstances to do so. In Old and New Testament equally, she says, it is evident... |
Textual Features | Frances, Lady Norton | The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. Grace, Lady Gethin,. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Frances, Lady Norton, Printed by D. Edwards for the author. A3r |
Textual Features | Dorothy Boulger | Many of them flag through their titles the fact that their pivotal roles belong to women, in a way that suggests they were intended for a mostly female audience. Such titles include two which look... |
Textual Features | Mary Jones | Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library
and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University
. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press. 169 |
Reception | Ethel Sidgwick | A three-page typescript on ES
by William Stanley Braithwaite
is located at the University of Texas at Austin
, and a single document in the Peace Collection at Swarthmore College
. The Bodleian Library
... |
Reception | Anna Maria Bennett | The Critical Review thought this the first of AMB
's novels to achieve excellence. This time, it said, the intricate story was well woven (at least in the first two volumes) and the plot and... |
Reception | Dylan Thomas | At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT
delivered the typed, completed manuscript... |
Reception | Emily Lawless | Many of EL
's papers survive, although they are scattered. The largest collection is at Marsh's Library
in Dublin. Collections of her correspondence survive in the Bodleian Library
, Oxford, the Hove Central Library |
Reception | Felicia Skene | Although FS
is not widely known today, some of her books have been reprinted in the last twenty years. A selection of her work is available online from the Victorian Women Writers Project
. Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University. |
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