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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Gertrude Thimelby	GT 's youngest sister, Constance Aston (later Fowler) , was a letter-writer and a great collector of the manuscripts of her circle. Her collection (now in the Huntington Library ) is treated by the Perdita Project
Intertextuality and Influence	Queen Elizabeth I	QEI composed her own prayers on both personal and public occasions over the whole course of her career. Imprisoned in the Tower of London between March and May 1554 (early in her sister's reign), she...
Publishing	Jane Anger	The title continues: Jane Anger her Protection for Women To defend them against the Scandalous Reportes of a late Surfeiting Lover, and all other like Venerians that complaine so to be overcloyed with womens kindnesse...
Publishing	Elizabeth Avery	EA wrote this work at Newbury in Berkshire, as a childless wife who had lost four children to death and had recently gone through the experience of religious despair followed by assurances of her...
Publishing	Jane Brereton	In the body of the volume she identifies herself as Melissa. Just two copies are known of a fine-paper version. One, at the Huntington Library , is wrongly dated 1725 (in Roman numerals). The other...
Publishing	Ephelia	The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...
Publishing	Kate Greenaway	This book was first published in three or four distinct editions, variously bound. An unauthorized edition appeared in the USA the next year, from McLoughlin Brothers , who pirated other publications by KG ...
Reception	Anne Whitehead	Apart from George Whitehead, most of the contributors were women. The first two words of this title were later used again and again on pious testimonies. The copy at the Huntington Library has manuscript bibliographical...
Textual Production	Margaret Holford	It was published, undated, at London and Chester, with MH 's name and mention of her previous works, by October 1799. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. (1799) 27:236 The manuscript submitted to the censor is Larpent no. 1231, in the Huntington Library .
Textual Production	Sarah Wentworth Morton	A large collection of SWM 's manuscripts is held by the Huntington Library in California. They include some markedly different versions of poems published in My Mind and its Thoughts (like an ode addressed...
Textual Production	An Collins	Only one copy is known to have survived (at the Huntington Library : shelfmark 54047). This copy was once in the collection of Sir Mark Sykes , husband of novelist Henrietta Sykes .. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989. 56 A...
Textual Production	Eglinton Wallace	The play was too long, so some passages were omitted in performance. Wallace, Eglinton. The Ton, or Follies of Fashion. A Comedy. T, Hookham, 1788. iv The manuscript is now Larpent 801 in the Huntington Library . A Dublin edition quickly followed the London one. “Eighteenth Century Collections Online”. Gale Databases.
Textual Production	Elizabeth Inchbald	Its anonymous manuscript survives as Larpent 952 in the Huntington Library entitled Lovers No Conjurors.
Textual Production	Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach	As Lady Craven, the future EMA had several of her plays (light farces, pantomimes, and fables) privately performed. From the late 1770s onwards they were given for the benefit of the poor of...
Textual Production	Hannah Cowley	She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it...

Timeline

27 November 1807

The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later the Adelphi), built by manufacturer John Scott, opened with an entertainment of speeches, songs, etc. written by his daughter, Jane Scott .

Johnson, Richard William. “An Unreliable Friend”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, pp. 27-8.

27, 28

April 1947

A Bethlehem antiquities dealer bought some papyrus scrolls found by a Bedouin shepherd in a cave at Qumran near the Dead Sea. One copy of the book of Isaiah has proved to be the...

Texts

Child, Elizabeth. “Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 153-73.

Eger, Elizabeth. “‘Out rushed a female to protect the Bard’: The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 127-51.

Guest, Harriet. “Bluestocking Feminism”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 59-80.

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,. Guide to Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Huntington Library, 1979.

Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 105-25.

Lanser, Susan Sniader. “Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 257-75.

Magrath, Jane. “’Rags of Mortality’: Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 235-56.

Major, Emma. “The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 175-92.

Pohl, Nicole, and Betty Schellenberg. “Introduction: A Bluestocking Historiography”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 1-19.

Rizzo, Betty. “Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 193-14.

Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.