University of Virginia

SL was a friend of Adelaide Ristori (an Italian tragedy actress who married into the nobility and achieved an international reputation) and of novelists Alexandre Dumas the younger , and George Sand , among others...

It had been advertised in the London Chronicle on 22-4 April. The day after it appeared AR 's previous publisher, Hookham , issued a whole clutch of related works: new editions of her first...

It was advertised for sale on 21 January. SHR 's preface defines her audience as the young and thoughtless of the fair sex. The only known copy, at the University of Virginia ...

This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799. Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...

Shortly after her spell on Mademoiselle came her breakdown and attempted suicide: both episodes which she wrote about in her novel The Bell Jar. She also wrote poetry while she was at Smith College

Intended for young audiences, the work ultimately appealed to a much broader readership. Within just over a year it had sold thirty thousand copies. Continuing interest is reflected in a whole series of film...

A collection of SHR 's letters is in the University of Virginia library.

Given the coincidence of names in LAT 's family, it is hardly surprising that misattributions should have occurred. The British Library Catalogue adds the name of her stepmother, presumably in error, to its listings of...

It is dedicated to the Duchess of York , and was advertised in March as soon to appear. The only copy known to survive is at the University of Virginia . This is...

OCLC records that the catalogue of the library at the University of Cincinnatti ascribes to Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire (wrongly) a reprint of Elizabeth Hervey 's The Mourtray Family. A Novel (which appeared in January...

The literary-critical preface, unusually for such a satirical work, bears her intials. Green says she has reasons for concealing her name, but will affix the REAL initials of that name to this advertisement. ....

The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still. The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...