Hannah Webster probably began placing pieces of her writing in Boston newspapers before her marriage. In 1804 she began contributing anonymously to the Monthly Anthology or Magazine of Polite Literature (published at Boston in 1803-4).
Davidson, Cathy N., and Hannah Webster Foster. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Coquette, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. vii - xxiv.
Short stories by JG
appear regularly in periodicals, and many have been chosen for anthologies, both for children and for adults, including The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, edited by Terri Windling
, 1995, and The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories, edited by Michael Cox
, 1996.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
AW
initiated the pseudonym by which she is known when nine of her poems were published in Harold Monro
's journal Poetry and Drama.
Grant, Joy. Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
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Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 51-157.
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Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48.
Before its publication in London, A Marriage Under the Terror (a genuinely historical fiction) had appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette, which was standard reading for British people in the Punjab at that time.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Though these have been called letter-books, they have essays and poems interspersed. They were passed from hand to hand, and the survivors rediscovered in 1925, when selected letters were published in the Wigan Examiner. The extant volumes are number two (1807-9), number three (1809-11), number five (discovered after the rest), and the seventh (1822-5). They are now, with a few of EW
's other papers, in WiganPublic Library
.
Bagley, John Joseph et al. “Introduction”. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess, edited by Edward Hall, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.
Beatrice Potter (later BW
) first reached print with a letter to the Pall Mall Gazette, headed A Lady's View of Unemployment at the East, describing the Katherine Buildings in East London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MOW
anonymously published in the Massachusetts Spy the first instalment of her patriotic, or pro-independence, one-act play The Adulateur, an attack on Governor Thomas Hutchinson
.
Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972.
In October 1870 SV
's short story The Biter Bit appeared in Temple Bar, under her pseudonym J. A. St John Blythe.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
MT
continued to publish small volumes of poetry during the next few years. Laura's Dream; or, The Moonlanders (seen in the twenty-first century as belonging to the category of science fiction) appeared at London in 1816 in 48 pages. Aubrey, anonymously published at Southampton in 1818, and The Assize Ball; or, Lucy of the Moor, anonymously published at Dorchester in 1820, are both bound up with the British Library
copy of Campaspe.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Science Fiction Studies has carried a discussion of The Moonlanders by Katharine Kittredge
in November 2006 and the text of the poem in its series Documents in the History of Science Fiction, March 2007.
RT
places her stories (as she indicates in the preliminary pages of Evangelista's Fan) in various venues before collecting them in volumes. Some have been read on BBC
radio, some printed in newspapers like The Observer or the Independent, others in magazines like Marie Claire, and others in various story anthologies.
Tremain, Rose. Evangelista’s Fan and Other Stories. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.
VT
wrote articles on interior decorating, gardening, and the theatre for Vogue, as well as for other newspapers. She had her own Sunday newspaper advice column, titled Can I Help You? (out of which her 1937 etiquette book grew).
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Fielding, Daphne. The Rainbow Picnic. Eyre Methuen, 1974.
IT
appeared in print for the first time when a poem of hers was included by Solita Solano
, drama critic for the Boston Herald Traveler, in her column.
Fielding, Daphne. The Rainbow Picnic. Eyre Methuen, 1974.
After trying for a year, KCT
had her first finished work (a short story, Masquerade, not to be confused with her popular novel The Masquerader) accepted by the Pall Mall Magazine. It appeared in the next issue, in August.
The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton.
23.138 (March 1903): 228
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.
Thurston, Katherine Cecil. “Masquerade”. The Pall Mall Magazine, Vol.
Two days after his nineteenth birthday, Dylan Thomas
published in the LondonSunday Referee a poem which became one of his best-known, The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
She says she had thought of publishing this letter (or a version of it) last winter, but had been persuaded against it.
Thicknesse, Ann. A Letter from Miss F—d. 1761.
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She informed Lord Jersey that she aimed to make just enough money to cover the expence of Printing, and to put the Five Guineas you refused me [as a subscription], clear in my pocket: I covet no more. Her only anxiety was lest her publication should give pain to Lady Jersey
, one of the best women that lives.
Thicknesse, Ann. A Letter from Miss F—d. 1761.
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The date is written on the title-page of the British Library
copy. This work sold a hundred copies on each of its first five days in print. Abstracts of it and of Jersey's answer appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine in January and February 1761.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MT
published more than twenty articles, primarily addressing issues surrounding women, work, and economic independence, in Emily Faithfull
's Victoria Magazine.
Murray, Janet Horowitz. “The First Duty of Women: Mary Taylors Writings in Victoria MagazineVictorian Periodicals Review, Vol.