British Library

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.

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...

MBL 's anonymous Sir Edward Grey, K. G. (a Liberal and then Foreign Secretary, later first Viscount Grey of Fallodon ), 1915, is in 2008 ascribed to her in the Bodleian Library but not in...

The anonymous three-volume novel Pique, A Tale of the English Aristocracy was probably FN 's first; its authorship was alluded to two years later on the title page of her Agatha Beaufort; or, Family Pride...

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

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...

One manuscript note in the British Library copy ascribes this to Eliza Coltman (which could mean either EH , called by her birth name, or her mother ), while another note re-ascribes it to Mr...

Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...

HMC 's surviving letters span the years both before and after her marriage. Apart from her best-known letters, exchanged with Richardson himself, Richardson's circle, and other Bluestockings of the original generation, she corresponded with Frances Burney

EF 's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to...

UM 's plays never reached publication, but some playscripts are preserved in the National Library of Jamaica (Pocomania) and the British Library (At What a Price).

Helen Waddell translated Lyrics from the Chinese, published this year as her first book.

Some of MB 's letters survive in the British Library .

She identified herself on the title-page as the Authoress of the Exemplary Mother, and used Dodsley , her usual publisher. She dedicated her novel in its new form to Letitia, Lady Beauchamp-Proctor (wife of the...

The British Library , however, has three copies.