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Textual Production Lady Anne Barnard
Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...
Textual Production Maud Sulter
The same publisher brought out her Unrequited, apparently undated. Even the National Library of Scotland (which listed both Service to Empire and Unrequited in its catalogue without having seen copies) is uncertain whether or...
Textual Production Eliza Lynn Linton
The Fitzpark Museum at Keswick in Cumberland holds a few of ELL 's earliest surviving writings. Others of her letters and papers survive at Duke University , the National Library of Scotland , the University of Illinois at Urbana
Textual Production Isabella Bird
Her papers, formerly held by the London publishing house of John Murray , are now in the National Library of Scotland . Both the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society hold some...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS approached the process of writing in a manner characteristically savouring of magical ritual. She wrote in longhand, seldom revising, and never used a pen anyone else had touched. Her notebooks were of a particular...
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
NM 's papers are at the National Library of Scotland , Edinburgh, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center , University of Texas , Austin.
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
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Textual Production Caroline Bowles
Bowles maintained a cordial relationship with publisher William Blackwood , but her dealings with his sons Alexander and Robert were somewhat colder. It seems that she frequently made arrangements to receive books as remuneration for...
Textual Production Nan Shepherd
Unpublished poetry by NS is held in her archive at the National Library of Scotland , Manuscripts.27438-45. She disliked talking about her writing, and when asked about it she often deflected inquiries in an almost...
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
The Dictionary of Literary Biography suggests that LCB earned on average about £200 for each of her books. Some of her papers survive in the National Library of Scotland .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Textual Production Edith Mary Moore
A novel entitled A Wilful Widow, which appeared in 1913, is evidently by EMM . Difficulties with George Allen had apparently caused her to change publishers (for the second time) to Constable . The...
Textual Production Catherine Carswell
Letters exchanged by John Buchan with CC and her husband are in the National Library of Scotland . Her son carefully preserved tin trunks full of her manuscripts and papers, which he sorted through at...
Textual Production Catharine Colace Ross
CCR wrote her memoirs in old age, at popular request, finding herself often challenged for not setting down the remarkable Passages of my Life, and of the Divine Goodness manifested to me.
Ross, Catharine Colace. Memoirs, or Spiritual Exercises. David Duncan, 1735.
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