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Textual Production Valentine Ackland
Not until 1998 were any of VA 's letters published. In that year about a third of the huge correspondence exchanged between her and her longtime lover was published as I'll Stand By You: Selected...
Reception Grace Aguilar
Another indication of her popularity in the US is that one of the oldest libraries in New York City, founded in 1886, was named in her honour as the Aguilar Library ; it is now...
Reception Maya Angelou
MA became an iconic figure during her lifetime, symbolizing the struggle of the excluded for recognition, and eventually the reconciliation of Americans black and white. In February 2011 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
Textual Production Anna Atkins
It appeared before Fox Talbot 's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially...
Textual Production W. H. Auden
The major collections of WHA 's papers are at the New York Public Library and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center .
Publishing Sir J. M. Barrie
A typescript used as a prompt book at New York the following year and now held by the New York Public Library appears to be the earliest known form of the text, which was first...
Textual Production Elizabeth Beverley
The only known copy dated this year is at the University of California at Davis . The British Library 's four copies include the allegedly fourth and sixth editions, and the New York Public Library
Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As her reputation recovered in the later part of the century, fine editions of particular works began to emerge: Julia Markus 's edition of Casa Guidi Windows, 1977, and Margaret Reynolds 's landmark edition...
Textual Production Margaret Bryan
The work was based on a series of thirteen lectures given at her school. It was dedicated to Princess Charlotte and to Charles Hutton , scientist and writer, and published by subscription. Subscribers included 157...
Textual Production Margaret Bryan
MB is reported to have revised and approved
Keene, Melanie. “Playing among the stars: Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy (1804)”. History of Education, Vol.
40
, No. 4, pp. 521-42.
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a board game invented by John Wallis , called Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy, though it is not clear whether she gave...
Textual Production Frances Burney
The most substantial parts of FB 's immense hoard of personal and family papers are in the New York Public Library (Berg Collection) and in the British Library . Their division (sometimes two torn and...
Textual Production Dinah Mulock Craik
The Berg Collection of the New York Public Library contains some of DMC 's letters; Princeton University Library has further letters and some manuscripts.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
137
The project Digital Dinah Craik is working on a TEI-conformant...
Textual Production Selina Davenport
Some of her letters to Jane Porter survive at the Huntington Library and the New York Public Library .
Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport.
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
Newspaper clippings relating to SD 's writing career can be found at the Theatre Museum study room in London and the Billy Rose collection at the New YorkPublic Library , Lincoln Center Branch.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Reception Anita Desai
Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...

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Rivlin, Joseph B. Harriet Martineau: A Bibliography of Her Separately Printed Books. New York Public Library, 1947.