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Textual Production Charlotte Forman
These letters are now in the British Library among Add. MS 30869-30871. One of them was printed by John Almon in his edition of Wilkes's Correspondence, 1805.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
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During these years she sent Wilkes...
Textual Production Mary Fortune
These stories had appeared in the Journal between 1870 and 1871. The volume was printed in Melbourne by the publishers of The Australian Journal in what seems to have been a small run; OCLC lists...
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 Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Both poems and letters by Frances Hertford survive among the rich deposits at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, the Percy stronghold inherited by her daughter. Some letters are in the British Library , and some...
Material Conditions of Writing Antonia Fraser
This 70,000-word retelling of Sir Thomas Malory
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19.
16
was produced within six weeks, including research at the then British Museum , to fulfil a contract between Weidenfeld and Nicolson and the retail chain Marks and Spencer
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
She and Pinter decided to sell their manuscripts to the British Library . In July 1994 they went to pay our manuscripts a visit. They found that while Pinter's were stored in conventional box-files, hers...
Textual Production Elizabeth Freke
Her one-day-at-a-time structuring makes the work particularly like a diary in appearance, though its composition was retrospective. She seems to have written not for the usual religious, moralistic, or business reasons (though she offers somewhat...
Material Conditions of Writing Maggie Gee
MG says that having been a good girl too long, she chose fiction as an opportunity not to censor her voice to meet the demands of home, or the education system, or boyfriends, not to...
Family and Intimate relationships Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth Carter was Lady Spencer's mentor on religion and reassured her that her high social station made it necessary, even meritorious, to be to a large extent worldly. The Althorp MSS at the British Library
Textual Production Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
As she became more deeply involved in politics in late 1782, Georgiana Devonshire expressed a hope to become one day a faithful historian of the secret history of the times.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
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She later recorded the...
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...
Publishing Dorothea Gerard
Again the London edition (by Stanley Paul and Co. ) was accompanied by a Tauchnitz edition, of which the British Library copy is bound with the publisher's list and catalogue, and with two pages of...
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
With PG 's name appeared the designation author of the History of Lady Louisa Stroud. There are copies of The Niece, now rare, at the British Library and Chawton House Library . PG
Textual Production Anne Hart Gilbert
In this collaborative book, John Gilbert wrote most of the first 26 pages and AHG the next 18 pages. The Wesleyan missionary William Box also had a hand in the story, which was continued past...
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.

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