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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...
Textual Production Lady Anne Barnard
She had often heard this very popular tune sung by Sophia Johnston to words beginning The bridegroom greets when the sun goes down.
Graham, Henry Grey. Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century. Adam and Charles Black.
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Lady Anne told her younger sister, Elizabeth, I have been writing...
Textual Production Anna Brassey
AB 's work has received some reprinting, for instance in A Book of Sea Journeys, compiled by Ludovic Kennedy (1981). Nancy Micklewright 's A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East, 2003, deals with...
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...
Textual Production Anne Burke
The manuscript submitted to the censor, Larpent MS 992, survives in the Huntington Library .
Textual Production Frances Burney
The copy read by the examiner of plays (all plays to be performed on the London stage had to apply for a licence) survives at the Huntington Library as Larpent MS 1058. The tragedy reached...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
His title was Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Montagu, between the years 1755 and 1800; the title-page pointed out that he was also the owner of the actual letters. The Montagu Collection...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
The Women's Library holds papers of FPC including contributions to several archives of letters. Particularly interesting is a scrapbook of cuttings, cartoons, etc. (mostly on the suffrage struggle, dating from 1893-1913). Cobbe gave this volume...
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.
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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 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 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 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 Mary Delany
There are sixty-four letters from and fifty letters to MD 's sister, Anne Dewes , among the Montagu Papers in the Huntington Library . Her correspondence from her years in Windsor, some of it unpublished...

Timeline

27 November 1807: The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later...

Women writers item

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...

Writing climate item

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.