British Library

HM was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay

Braintree is only about six miles from Steele's home, Rivenhall Place, and she later published her play, too, locally. This text is not in the Bodleian or Cambridge University Library and not listed by...

There is no extensive collection of manuscripts by CM , but letters by her are held in various libraries in the USA: the Rhode Island Historical Society , the Boston Public Library , the...

The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still. The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...

LMS also contributed to a collection issued by the Royal Society of Literature in 1931: Essays by Divers Hands (edited by Sir Francis Younghusband ). She wrote the forewords to Lorna Keeling Connard's part-verse...

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.

She dedicated the Lais to the King (who may well have been Henry II ). The earliest dated manuscript survives in the British Library as Harleian MS 978; it contains a prologue as well as...

The most substantial parts of FB 's immense hoard of personal and family papers are in the New York Public Library (Berg Collection) and in the British Library . Their division (sometimes two torn and...

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...

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...

MS used this book in the religious training of her children. It was written entirely in one-syllable words. She hoped writing the book would enable her to purchase Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth (and her...

MW 's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces.

A prolific poet throughout her career, LOC also wrote songs and composed music for them. The British Library attributes the following (along with a number of other poetic and musical works) to Chant in its...

The full title was Her Original Letters from India; containing a narrative of a journey through Egypt: and the author's imprisonment at Calicut by Hyder Ally. To which is added, an Abstract of Three Subsequent...