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Textual Production Mary Pix
It was published the same year.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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The British Library copy (841 e. 6) bears a contemporary note of MP 's name. The prologue (probably by Congreve , though given anonymously)
McKenzie, Donald Francis. “A New Congreve Literary Autograph”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xv
, No. 4, pp. 292-9.
297
implies that...
Reception Sylvia Plath
In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez (who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time ....
Textual Production C. E. Plumptre
CEP published her historical novel Giordano Bruno : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century in two volumes under her own name.
This work is misascribed to Charles Edward Plumptre by the Bodleian Library though not...
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
Besides her diaries, KR left letters, notebooks, and other manuscripts which are now in the British Library and other British and American collections.
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
The majority of DR 's papers are held by Yale University 's Beinecke Library . Smaller collections are housed at the British Library , the New York Public Library , the University of Texas at Austin
Occupation Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR ) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was...
Material Conditions of Writing Emma Roberts
For this work, published before her first voyage to India, she did research at the British Museum .
Author summary Margaret Roberts
MR wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz to put her name on some of...
Employer Michèle Roberts
The first year of her course gave her a position as Library Scholar in the Department of Printed Books at the then British Museum . She worked on the enquiry desk, then at cataloguing. She...
Education Emma Roberts
Her memoirist says her thirst for letters was unquenchable, and the extent of her reading proves that her early years must have been years of application.
Unsigned, and Emma Roberts. “Memoir”. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay, W. H. Allen, p. xi - xxviii.
xiv
Once in London she studied for herself at...
Material Conditions of Writing E. Arnot Robertson
EAR 's novel Four Frightened People was set more entirely than her previous one in Malaya (where the author had never been). It relied on her research at the British Museum .
Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix.
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Textual Production Emma Robinson
ER , as the author of Whitefriars, published Caesar Borgia , An Historical Romance: the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library though not the British Library hold copies of this edition.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Mary Robinson
She received £63 for the copyright; 1,250 copies were printed.
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
17
, pp. 191-07.
204n19
The portrait in the British Library copy is an insertion, although the English Short Title Catalogue mentions it as integral to the edition.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books.
87
Publishing Margaret Roper
Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
A complete edition of her surviving Letters appeared between 1997 and 2004, edited by Antony H. Harrison .
Rossetti, Christina. The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Editor Harrison, Antony H., University Press of Virginia.
Harrison notes that few letters to her mother or sister exist since she was in the habit...

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