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AT issued a tract entitled either A Voice for the King of Saints and Nations or A Lively Voice for the King of Saints and Nations.

MT continued to publish small volumes of poetry during the next few years. Laura's Dream; or, The Moonlanders (seen in the twenty-first century as belonging to the category of science fiction) appeared at London in...

CT contributed Calliope: The Heroick Muse to The Nine Muses, Manley 's collection of elegies by women on Dryden 's death, published by 26 September 1700. A different poem by her, On the...

Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ) apparently returned, at some time between 1717 and 1725, to the epistolary genre of her youth in the uncompleted, unrevised Letters of Aspasia, Camilla and Serena (among in the Birch...

The fuller title was The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical. Several of them now first printed. Many of the bluestocking circle subscribed. Two British Library copies have different versions...

The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...

When HT 's manuscript was acquired by Gerald Sattin a large number of letters and other papers were destroyed. In the view of his son, their editor, the Memoirs were the only important materials to...

In 1912 EU prepared an edition of The Cloud of Unknowing with an introduction tracing its history from its beginnings in the sixth century through its first translation into English, in the fourteenth century. Her...

EU drew her material here from manuscripts in the British Museum (now the British Library ) as well as from old printed books. She aimed at re-introducing to English readers a cycle of old...

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

HW enrolled as a postgraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford , in November 1920, but never finished either the thesis or the residence requirements for her D.Phil. She developed at this stage an over-riding interest...

In 1931, the year of her Prévost work, HW edited both A Book of Medieval Latin for Schools, a pedagogic anthology undertaken as frankly an experiment through the persistence of the Classical Panel of...

The British Library and Bodleian Library hold only an undated edition for which they surmise a date of 1894. The unique Cornell copy of the Homespun Series edition listed by OCLC WorldCat includes publisher's advertisements.

LMW dedicates her second book to a friend she has known for twelve years (identified in a manuscript note in the British Library copy, shelfmark C 175 l. 4, as Lady Marchmont ).

Meanwhile, Lady Frances begins by building one hundred dwellings (designed by Capability Brown ) to house artisans and workmen, and proceeds to construct a museum, library, astronomical observatory, an anatomy room, studios, a botanical garden...