Huntington Library

Connections

Connections Sort ascending	Author name	Excerpt
Textual Production	Jane Porter	JP 's unpublished works at the Folger Library include poems, letters, and personal diaries. Other papers of hers are in the Huntington Library . Her brother 's manuscripts, at the University of Kansas and Caracas...
Textual Production	Mary Shelley	MS was a prolific and expressive letter-writer. Many of her letters have survived: the Huntington Library has 181. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,. Guide to Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Huntington Library.
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. 56 A...
Textual Production	Maria Theresa Kemble	It was never published. The manuscript submitted to the censor is Larpent 1254 at the Huntington Library .
Textual Production	Mary Robinson	MR herself sold tickets for this benefit. The songs were printed this year, though the piece itself remained unpublished. The manuscript is Larpent 447, Huntington Library . The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 167
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...
Textual Production	Maria Theresa Kemble	This is Larpent 1447 in the Huntington . It remained unpublished for the time being, but in about 1835 George Daniel of Islington printed it as by Mrs Charles Kemble, from the acting copy...
Textual Production	Mary Robinson	Dorothy Jordan , who starred in it, set songs by MR to music. The manuscript of the play is in the Larpent Collection at the Huntington Library . Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 13: 37 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1707
Textual Production	Elizabeth von Arnim	She requested that after she died, everything that might threaten the eyes and reason of the biographer be destroyed. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 313 Liebet , the daughter she chose as executor of her will, complied with this in...
Textual Production	Helen Craik	HC was said after her death to have published writings in French, but these have not been traced. Some of her manuscripts are in private hands. Burns 's two surviving letters to her are in...
Textual Production	Maria Theresa Kemble	This is Larpent 1549, Huntington Library . It was published later that year, in an American edition in 1813, and in a reprint of around 1856. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. By 1813 it had been performed at New York...
Textual Production	Vita Sackville-West	Manuscripts of The Land and The Garden are in the Huntington Library . The Lilly Library at Bloomington, Indiana, has some letters and early diaries. 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. VSW sold a total of eight manuscripts to the...
Textual Production	Catherine Cuthbertson	It remained unpublished; its manuscript is Larpent 969 in the Huntington Library . The identity of this Miss Cuthbertson with the novelist is speculative.
Textual Production	Anna Margaretta Larpent	AML closed the diary she had kept since 1773; her last passage describes the business of disposing of the archive of play manuscripts which is now the Larpent Collection in the Huntington Library . Larpent, Anna Margaretta. A Woman’s View of Drama. Adam Matthew. July 1830 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.

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 .

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.