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Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
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...
Textual Production Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
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...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell translated Lyrics from the Chinese, published this year as her first book.
Biographer Monica Blackett dates this publication 1915, but both the British Library and the Bodleian Library catalogues clearly list an...
Textual Production Elizabeth Baker
Typescripts of EB 's unpublished plays can be found in the Lord Chamberlain's collection at the British Library and the Theatre Museum study room in London.
Textual Production Margaret Legge
The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon .
Legge, Margaret. The Price of Stephen Bonyng. Alston Rivers.
prelims
It seems now to be very rare. The Bodleian Library has a copy, but the British Library
Textual Production Laura Ormiston Chant
LOC published Sellcuts' Manager, her only novel.
The British Library catalogues this work as Sellcuts's Manager and the Bodleian as Sellcut's Manager.
The Academy.
1430 (1899): 336
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Jean Middlemass
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
The series of watercolours by EPS which her husband presented to George III are now in the British Library .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Isabella Whitney
The British Library holds the world's only surviving copy, C. 39 b. 45; again, one cannot tell for certain whether it is a first edition or a re-issue. Richard Jones seems to have marketeed Nicholas Breton
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
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...
Textual Production Frances Notley
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...
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY anonymously published her first novel, Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit.
Dictionary of Literary Biography 18 lists only the reprint of 1848.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research.
18: 308
The British Library has the second edition but not the first.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company.
58
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
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...
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
JCM 's surviving writings, long preserved in family hands, are in the Hertfordshire Record Office , the British Library and the Bodleian . She did not write for publication, though it seems that she was...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire re-issued her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard at Paris with her own Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland.
Bess's work...

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