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Apart from her papers at the British Library , MB left a commonplace-book at the Bodleian Library , Oxford.

Her inital plan for these last volumes, a social history of humankind during the Christian era, was to divide the material between five separate books of about 210 pages each, and sell them for about...

This date, which heads the future Countess of Bridgewater 's collection of private prayers and meditations (now Egerton MS 607 in the British Library ), may or may not mark the earliest of its contents.

At her death Georgiana left all her voluminous letters and papers to the care of Lady Elizabeth Foster . Lady Elizabeth no doubt took decisions as to what to save and what to destroy that...

She was inspired to help the hospital by the fact that she had a daughter with tuberculosis, who died three years after this. She dated her prose preface from Belgravia, 23 June 1863.

Subscribers included the Prince of Wales and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , her daughter the Countess of Carlisle , Charles Burney , Warren Hastings , Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble)

While compaigning for suffrage, AK owned and edited The Lady's Own Paper for a period of about three months, using her married name, Mrs Algernon Kingsford.

This text is not listed by OCLC or by the British Library catalogue, but the Bodleian Library has a copy.

It appeared before Fox Talbot 's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially...

She describes her motivation like this: My Begining to wright was for amusement, when maloncarly on the Death of Our Great Friend Treasurr Oxford , and the Absence of Mr Caesar , to whom I...

In old age QEI translated Boethius, Plutarch, Tacitus , and Horace. Most of this work was printed as Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, 1899. Her rendering of the opening passage of Petrarch 's The Triumph of...

This new publication was priced at one shilling. Its full title here was The Story of Inkle and Yarrico: A Most Moving Tale from the Spectator. The first poem opens A youth there was...

The British Library holds a volume of HL 's poems and stories written late in life and apparently never published.

The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon . It seems now to be very rare. The Bodleian Library has a copy, but the British Library

In the same year JM published two other works in three volumes. One of these, Sackcloth and Broadcloth, contained sketches that drew on her own experience of the clerical life. (Broadcloth is worn by...