Her various diaries and journals are catalogued as Huntington
HM 31201.
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press.
379
They have also been microfilmed and a guide has been published as A Woman's View of Drama, 1790-1830: the Diaries of Anna Margaretta...
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Mary Scott
Steele
, says MS
(using her friend's pen-name, Theodosia), had urged her to finish the poem. Within the poem itself she also pays tribute, under the name of Philander, either to Steele's father...
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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.
343
Lady Anne told her younger sister, Elizabeth, I have been writing...
Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport.
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Bathsua Makin
The title-page, in Latin, names her father as well as herself, mentions her tender age, and bears epigraphs in Greek and French. The British Library
copy has a note on its final page in the...
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Sarah Scott
The Montagu Papers at the Huntington Library
contain 367 of SS
's letters to her sister, and about twice that many from Elizabeth to her. Nicole Pohl
's edition of Scott's letters (those which survived...
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Many of MGCB
's letters were included by R. R. Madden
(a personal friend) in his edition of her Literary Life and Correspondence, 1855; but he often makes unadvertised cuts in letters.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
9n26
The...
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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 Her correspondence from her years in Windsor, some of it unpublished...
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...
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Mary Delany
The chief collection of MD
's manuscripts is at the Central Library
, Newport, Monmouthshire. Her autobiography has unfortunately disappeared, but other papers are in the Portland Collection at the University of Nottingham
...
The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate. The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
27 November 1807: The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later...
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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.