British Library

The date comes from an advertisement in the Monthly Catalogue, which placed the work among miscellaneous pamphlets, not poetry.EB sold the copyright, plus three hundred remaining copies, at B. Creake 's trade...

She dedicated it to her patron Lady Hertford . The British Library copy is 12604 ccc. 7. Harvard University holds the only known copy of an undated set of subscription proposals, which is headed Any...

The British Library copy is 11633 e. 50. EB published it with S. Slow , and dedicated it the fourth Earl of Cardigan (who had recently succeeded to this title and was later created Duke...

The British Library copy, anonymous, with six printers' names listed on its title-page, is 1489 m. 14. The title-page of a re-issue, probably with cancelled title-page (copies at Leeds and Indiana University Libraries) gives EB

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...

Her title-page uses the pseudonym Eloisa; her letter-writers are Eugenia and Montezella. EB emphasises, however, that she had no help in writing the work; and she published for herself. She intended this as a...

It was printed at Norwich and sold through London publishers. The subscription list was impressive, including Anna Letitia Barbauld , John Brand (presumably HB 's brother) of Hemingston Hall in Suffolk, who took twenty copies...

AB hit her stride this year, publishing many contributions to magazines as well as several books, including The Nicest Girl in the School, which proved her most popular text: it sold 153,000 copies.

She wrote the plays in Wales, where she used to entertain the local children with impromptu stories. Neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has a copy of the original: the former has a...

CB 's stay in Brussels (as well as contributing eventually to Villette) produced a number of French exercises or devoirs, plus her subsequent letters to Constantin Heger . Four of the letters (of which...

CBR married Polish poet and novelist Jerzy Pietrkiewicz (later Peterkiewicz), whom she had met at the British Library .

After being demobbed from her wartime position at Bletchley she had spent some time reading daily in the British Library (then the British Museum reading room) to prepare for the entrance exams to Somerville.

This novel uses medieval allegory to resolve the linguistic, psychological, and intellectual fragmentation of its heroine, Julia. Much of it is set in the reading room of the British Library (at this date situated...

After this RB continued regularly to publish further novels: Between Two Stools (1912), Concerning a Vow (1914), and A Thorn in the Flesh (1917), of which OCLC WorldCat lists five copies in North America, though...

Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...