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The publisher was said to have offered her a thousand pounds for this novel and had gone so far as to advertise it for sale. On 6 December AO wrote to Elizabeth Fry denying...

A new edition followed in June 1765. The Huntington Library holds two further unpublished dialogues.

According to George Ballard , MLC left in manuscript occasional poems, imitations and translations of Lucian (also translated by Lucy Hutchinson ), two tragedies, two operas, and a masque. They remained in her family...

Following Priscilla Cotton but preceding Margaret Fell , DW defended women's preaching in A Call from God Out of Egypt, by His Son Christ the Light of Life, which is partly in verse (a...

AO was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs or her husband; a few are from her...

HM was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay

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...

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...

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 .. A...

The play was too long, so some passages were omitted in performance. The manuscript is now Larpent 801 in the Huntington Library . A Dublin edition quickly followed the London one.

It was published, undated, at London and Chester, with MH 's name and mention of her previous works, by October 1799. The manuscript submitted to the censor is Larpent no. 1231, in the Huntington Library .

Its anonymous manuscript survives as Larpent 952 in the Huntington Library entitled Lovers No Conjurors.

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...

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...

The manuscript is now in the Huntington Library : Larpent 1093. The full title, as published with EW 's name, was The Whim, A Comedy. . . . With an Address to the Public, upon...