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Textual Production Jane Barker
Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library and at Magdalen College , Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar
Textual Production Mary Chandler
The British Library copy is 11630 h. 7. This edition was inscribed to Princess Amelia (one of George II 's daughters, who had twice visited Bath).
Chandler, Mary. A Description of Bath. James Leake.
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The edition printed at Bath in 1736 was...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
Her papers are widely scattered. In England the British Library , the Bodleian Library , the John Rylands Library , and Berkshire County Library hold important material; so do Harvard University Library and the Huntington Library
Textual Production Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Since it is listed by neither the British Library nor the Bodleian , and since the four copies listed by OCLC are all in the USA, it may perhaps have remained unpublished in England.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Textual Production Cassandra Cooke
As well as writings by CC now among the Beachcroft family private archive (at the Bodleian Library ) and the Stoneleigh papers (at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust , Stratford-upon-Avon), the letters whose backs Frances Burney
Textual Production Lady Jane Lumley
LJL 's writings survive among manuscripts in the British Library , with the shelf-marks Royal MS 15 A. i, ii, and ix.
Textual Production Evelyn Glover
EG 's correspondence with the Society of Authors , 1921-1941, is now in the British Library , catalogued as Add MSS 63250, 3. ff. 10-71.
National Archives,. “National Register of Archives (NRA)”. National Archives (UK).
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
Textual Production Anne Irwin
AI wrote letters that were admired. Some, like her travel letters, are lost. Some are in the British Library . Those to her father, preserved in the Castle Howard archives, have been published by the...
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
MJY allowed her poem Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches to appear in print attributed only to a Lady.
OCLC WorldCat dates all its listings of this work, including the British Library copy, 1791...
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
MJY has been credited with the sentimental, anti-war Horatio and Amanda. A Poem, by a Young Lady, 1777 (second edition 1788). The British Library copy of the first edition has Miss Mary Young written...
Textual Production Angela Brazil
AB hit her stride this year, publishing many contributions to magazines as well as several books, including The Nicest Girl in the School, which proved her most popular text: it sold 153,000 copies.
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Textual Production Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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...
Textual Production Sarah, Lady Piers
These letters are now in the British Library , together with Thomas Birch 's notes on them.
Textual Production Elizabeth Tollet
This survives in a manuscript copy, British Library Harley MS 7316. 68. It was printed in Edmund Curll 's Whartoniana, September 1727, unattributed, together with two other attributed poems by ET , and six...
Textual Production Maria De Fleury
The poem's title-page announces its publication date.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The second edition, published the same year is the only one listed by OCLC WorldCat or held by the British Library . It carried an advertisement of the...

Timeline

20 October 1940: 10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish...

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20 October 1940

10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish newspapers held by the British Museum were destroyed and a further 15,000 were damaged by bombing at Colindale north of London.

25 October 1997: The Round Reading Room at the British Library...

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25 October 1997

The Round Reading Room at the British Library was finally closed.

7 February 2007: First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded...

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7 February 2007

First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year prize (worth £25,000) for her novelThe Tenderness of Wolves.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

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