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DG published another novel, entitled The Conquest of London, about the struggles of four sisters to make a life for themselves despite their genteel poverty.

The title-page of this very rare book goes on: To which is added, a Description of part of the Main Land of Scotland, and of the Isles of Mull, Ulva, Staffa, I-Columbkill...

The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon . It seems now to be very rare. The Bodleian Library has a copy, but the British Library

Hurst & Blackett published CADS 's novel The Caddis-Worm; or, Episodes in the Life of Richard and Catharine Blake.

HB 's final, posthumous novel was again issued as by Oliver Sandys: it is Madame Adastra, set largely in the world of hospitals and nursing.

Alexander Pope is listed first among non-aristocratic subscribers; others include Soame Jenyns , Mrs Duncombe (probably mother of the later writer Susanna Duncombe), and John Barber (partner of the late Delarivier Manley ). The Bodleian Library

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

WP dedicated her novel There is a Fortress to the most generous of husband s. Her title-page quotes two stanzas from Henry Vaughan (from whom her title is adapted) without naming him.

CM 's Lucy's Nose, which is generally called her second novel, appeared forty years after her first. It is a book about Lucy R. in Freud 's Five Studies on Hysteria.

CS firmly denied writing D'Arcy: A Novel, hitherto listed as published at Dublin this year, in an edition bearing a version of her name. Recent scholarship indicates that she was telling the truth.

RW re-used the exotic setting of Egypt for another novel of comic rather than melodramatic tone: Moons and Winds of Araby, which has much in common with travel writing.

The Religious Tract Society published many collections and leaflets of Elliott's poems after her death, all of which are now obscure. Sixteen Poetical Leaflets appeared in 1872,

It seems that LH wrote this book in November 1787, at a time when she was probably ill, since she had a premonition of her own death. It was deposited in the parish chest (where...

The manuscript, a handsome fair copy, is in the Bodleian Library : Rawlinson MS Poet. 195 ff. 49-78. It bears a contemporary note saying it was apoynted, after cuts made at the instigation...

They used these names in correspondence for seven years. Their letters survive in the British Library and the Bodleian , and are printed in Locke's Correspondence.