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Travel Edith Sitwell
The tour was arranged by Charles Henri Ford . They visited New York and met many well-known people, then toured the Midwest lecture circuit. Their great public successes at Yale and Boston, as well...
Textual Production Mary Stockdale
She gave her name as Miss Stockdale. The only known surviving copy is at Yale , apart from one bound into MS 's Miscellaneous poems (Harvard ). In this copy MS altered the name Isabel to Isabella.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
She began it in connection with the writing game shared with her sister: the exchange of letters in the voice of French characters, modelled on those of Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis in Adelaide and Theodore; or...
Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
The Library of Congress now holds Millay's major archive of letters, notebooks, manuscripts, and photographs. Other papers are held by Yale University and the New York Public Library .
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Textual Production Bryher
Bryher's papers, including extensive correspondence with her literary and artistic contemporaries, are at Yale University 's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library . By 2007 there was still no biography.
Bryher,. “Introduction”. Bryher: Two Novels: Development; and, Two Selves, edited by Joanne Winning, University of Wisconsin Press, p. v - xli.
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Vicinus, Martha. “The Reverse Garden Party”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 25-6.
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Textual Production H. D.
HD kept a journal which in time became voluminous. It is now among her papers at Yale .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Alice Thornton
She brought this account of her life up to her husband's death. The original of this first book is not known to be extant, but a copy made by one of her descendants survives, identified...
Textual Production H. D.
The major archive of HD's papers is held at Yale University (along with several other deposits of material relevant to her). Eight other collections of some importance are listed by her biographer Barbara Guest ...
Textual Production Elizabeth Tollet
Her authorship of this volume was first revealed in a note in Roger Lonsdale 's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets in 1989.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
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Three copies are known to survive, at the British Library , Yale University ...
Textual Production Elizabeth Hervey
The manuscript, in twelve chapters and 286 quarto pages, bound in contemporary green morocco, is held by the Beinecke Library . It was shown in a Beckford exhibition at Yale in 1960.
Gotlieb, Howard B. William Beckford of Fonthill: writer, traveller, collector, caliph, 1760-1844. Yale University Library.
Giroud, Vincent. Letter to Isobel Grundy about Elizabeth Hervey.
Textual Production Elizabeth Nihell
A fragile copy survives in YaleMedical School Library .
Textual Production Violet Trefusis
The manuscript is with VT 's papers at the Beinecke Library at Yale University .
Textual Production Lady Jane Cavendish
The more complete of these handsome manuscript volumes survives in the Bodleian Library as Rawlinson MS Poet 16, and was brought to the attention of scholars in 1931 by Nathan Comfort Starr . It bears...
Textual Production Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
The only copy listed by OCLC WorldCat is now at Yale .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The frontispiece shows Hrotsvit, kneeling in her nun's robes, presenting a handsomely-bound copy of her own works to the Emperor Otho (or Otto) II
Textual Production Hester Lynch Piozzi
The observations and reflections which, to the end of her life, HLP never stopped writing down, included tireless annotation of the works of others. She confessed: I have a Trick of writing in the Margins...

Timeline

20 January 1672: Dorothy Calthorpe began the remarkable manuscript...

Women writers item

20 January 1672

Dorothy Calthorpe began the remarkable manuscript book of poetry and prose which was acquired by Yale University in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

1792: Yale University denied admission to a would-be...

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1792

Yale University denied admission to a would-be student, Lucinda Foote , noting that she was qualified in every respect except for her sex.

1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount...

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1836

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount Holyoke College) was founded at South Hadley, Maryland, by Mary Lyon : the first post-secondary educational institution for women in the USA.

Texts

Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.