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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...

An appendix, Women and the State by Ethel Snowden , was reprinted from the January number of The World's Work, giving a brief history of women in local government and public positions. The...

Apart from the manuscripts in Nottinghamshire Archives and Northumberland County Record Office , the British Library holds notebooks and letters of LH 's (Add. MS 39779, 46172, and 63788 B), besides her Memoirs of the...

The essays include prose, verse, and a number of pastiches of other writers. Two about Reading describe the London Library and the British Museum Reading Room . Others describe London literary life, or demonstrate Macaulay's...

This appeared as printed for the author. MC says her frontispiece, sketched in 1834, was to be her very last attempt at holding a pencil. Most of the lavish illustrations were by her...

Another of MMS 's books of this kind was The History of Henry Milner, a little boy, who was not brought up according to the fashions of this world, whose hero is based on...

Editor Fiona Robertson says that HK 's Report on a Recent Visit to the Colony of Sierra Leone, 1828, was preceded by a briefer report to the Committee of the Society of Friends for Promoting African Instruction

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that MF's latest work by date is her collection of 102 Fables in the manner of Aesop , translated into French from the English of someone called Alfred...

Apart from the letters to Trench and others printed in The Leadbeater Papers, ML 's letters to George Crabbe are now British Library MS Egerton 3709A. Her diary, now in the National Library of Ireland

AD regularly gave away copies of her work to female friends, sometimes as wedding presents. The Chawton House Library copy is inscribed as her gift to the Hon. Agar Ellison . The Lewis Walpole Library

The play was published the same year by Matthew Carey at Philadelphia. A London edition followed in 1822. The British Library holds copies of each edition containing manuscript notes.

HP was determined that his manuscripts should not go abroad but remain in the British Library . This duly happened, first on loan and then by purchase. At the official handover ceremony in March...

Historian Dorothy L. Latz prints or discusses several of CH 's religious works. A Method to Converse with God, a translation, survives as British Library Harleian MS 3184; Latz suspects CH may have written...

The young writer allegedly authored one or more essays about Jersey for a book by her mentor Henry David Inglis that must be his The Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Aldernay &c. (The Results of a...

The possibility that MM authored other poems, either among the contents of British Library (MS Add. 18,044), which includes some signed work by several people she knew, or the tombstone inscription for her third husband...