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MAK dated the preface to her volume of essays Loneliness and Leisure: A Record of the Thoughts and Feelings of Advanced Life, called after the motives that caused her to write on in her...

Wenman's translation survives in Cambridge University Library (callmarks MSS. Dd.1. 18, 19 and Mm. 3. 32) in two versions: a beautifully written two-volume folio scribal copy (made after the deaths of both the author and...

Wycliffe had made his translation in the fourteenth century. This transcription of it, handwritten on vellum, has had Tyrwhit's note carefully stitched onto one of its blank preliminary pages. The unknown contemporary or near-contemporary who...

In 1571 AB contributed a poem in Latin to a presentation manuscript (now in Cambridge University Library ) of Giardino cosmografico coltivato by the Italian protestant Giordano Sylva, alongside contributions from her sister Katherine...

Margaret Legge published her first novel, A Semi-Detached Marriage, which criticises the inequality embedded in marriage law and customs.

William Rastell included in his edition of The Workes of Sir Thomas More, Knyght . . . wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge the translation by MB of the Latin section of More's Treatise...

Braintree is only about six miles from Steele's home, Rivenhall Place, and she later published her play, too, locally. This text is not in the Bodleian or Cambridge University Library and not listed by...

For Pity's Sake, which appeared posthumously, was, says Cordelia Stamp , the last novel that ML wrote—or rather the last she worked at, revising it from an early story.

She began writing diaries at the age of nine, and continued the practice throughout her life. She may well have been influenced by the belief that she was a collateral descendant of the quintessential diarist,...

OCLC lists only one copy of this book, in Cambridge University Library .