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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 The songs were printed this year, though the piece itself remained unpublished.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, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 167
Textual Production Bathsua Makin
The Bodleian Library holds poems by BM (not indexed under M); the British Library has a copy of Musa Virginea with a note on the final page in her writing. The Huntington Library has her...
Textual Production Anne Burke
The manuscript submitted to the censor, Larpent MS 992, survives in the Huntington Library .
Textual Production Sarah Gardner
SG mentions cutting two lines from her play on the censor's suggestion on grounds of mainstream politics. She does not mention cuts on grounds of gender politics, but she apparently made two. In the manuscript...
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, 1973–1993.
13: 37
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1707
Textual Production Charlotte McCarthy
It was printed for the Author. Copies survive at the Library of Congress , Huntington Library , and Boston Public Library . Biographia Dramatica calls it a performance, though the text states that it...
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 Lady Mary Wroth
It was probably designed for amateur performance.
Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
53ff.
Sir Edward Dering , a connection of the author by marriage and a theatre fan, owned a manuscript of this play in her hand.
Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
37
His copy...
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JP 's unpublished works at the Folger Library include poems, letters, and personal diaries.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 Russell Mitford
Her papers are widely scattered. In England the British Library , the Bodleian Library , the John Rylands Library , and Berkshire County Library hold important material; so do Harvard University Library and the Huntington Library
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 Helen Maria Williams
Letters from her survive at the Huntington Library , the Bodleian Library , and the Wellcome Library .
Textual Production Amelia Opie
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.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
231
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
On 6 December AO wrote to Elizabeth Fry denying...
Textual Production Elizabeth Montagu
EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...
Textual Production Mary Lady Chudleigh
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.
Chudleigh, Mary, Lady. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xvii - xxxvi.
xxxv
They remained in her family...

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