British Library

Ouida issued Critical Studies, her second collection of previously published essays.

She said she undertook this work out of youthful curiosity to understand things I heard so much discourse of at second hand. She worked in her children's schoolroom, number[ing] the sillables . ....

CY anonymously published her first novel, Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit.

CT must have written this by 1754, when George Berkeley transcribed it with notes on making use of it for his sermons. His copy (now British Library Additional MS 46689) is titled Meditations. It...

CG 's poem is pasted to the endpapers. There are copies in the British Library and in the possession of A. C. Elias , Jr.

FK 's papers are at the New York Public Library , the Harvard College Library, Butler Library at Columbia University , Boston Public Library , the British Library , and the Victoria and Albert Museum .

OM published her ninth and shortest novel, The Play Room (which appeared the same year in the USA as Camperlea Girls).

The British Library copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood (prompter at Drury Lane ) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again...

Meanwhile, however, in 1963 Nottingham Playhouse moved to new premises, and its three directors, Peter Ustinov , John Neville , and Frank Dunlop , commissioned from various writers including SDa series of short sketch...

Though the printed sheet bears no name, a manuscript note in the British Library copy identifies it as by EPW . A copy appears as the final item in the Bodleian Library 's composite volume...

The Play Actors were a London society whose mandate was to encourage new authors, many of them from outside London. The play was never taken on by a regular theatre company, or published until...

She dedicated it to a baronet's wife, Lady Cockburn . Since Robinson (who had not published her previous novel) had paid her thirty pounds as long ago as March 1783, it seems that this must...

Between 1838 and 1862 seven more volumes were privately printed, under the same title. The British Library has two editions which include personal notes to friends.

The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the Minerva Press: The English-Woman, A Novel. Not until a British Library (then the British Museum ) catalogue of 1885 was the...

John Gibson Lockhart managed ME 's dealings about this book with the publisher, Bentley : Bentley was to buy the first edition only, not the continuing copyright, and was to increase the payment if he...