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Material Conditions of Writing Lydia Maria Child
The story of her researching this book at the Boston Athenæum is not quite accurate, since few of her borrowings from that institution were on the topic of slavery.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992.
99
Her preface declares that a...
Material Conditions of Writing Anne Stevenson
Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press .
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press, 1987.
149
She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...
Textual Production Richmal Crompton
RC returned to the topic of children growing towards adulthood in a novel entitled The Holiday.
Dated from acquisition record of the Boston Athenæum .
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Richmal Crompton
RC published Journeying Wave, a novel whose title comes from lines by Lascelles Abercrombie which she quotes on her title-page.
Date from acquisition note in Boston Athenæum copy.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Richmal Crompton
RC published another novel which presents the liberation of a middle-aged woman: Steffan Green.
Dated from note in Boston Athenæum copy.
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By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...

Women writers item

By 22 July 1797

William Beckford published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.
Beckford, William. Azemia. Sampson Low, 1797, 2 vols.
1: 21; 2: 43, 61, 236ff
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 20 (1797): 470

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