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In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness. Her two...

She had begun work on this book before leaving for England in November 1651. This was the first of her books to have a portrait frontispiece. The British Library holds two copies...

Someone addressed a poem of compliment to the child LJC (now Harleian MS 4955, ff, 86-7 in the British Library ).

She dedicated it to her doctor brother John , saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad—that is, to appear in print before the public. She said it was...

The British Library copy is 11630 h. 7. This edition was inscribed to Princess Amelia (one of George II 's daughters, who had twice visited Bath). The edition printed at Bath in 1736 was...

LOC published Sellcuts' Manager, her only novel.

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...

HMC 's surviving letters span the years both before and after her marriage. Apart from her best-known letters, exchanged with Richardson himself, Richardson's circle, and other Bluestockings of the original generation, she corresponded with Frances Burney

Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany) and John Wesley had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.) Both Pendarves

It was printed by Samuel Richardson . The British Library copy is T 1568 (7). The month after publication SC wrote to Richardson to express concern that he had identified her as the author: I...

This novel was advertised as soon to be published in July (at which date the title was to be Laure; or, The Parisian), and as recently published on 30 October. It has a...

Many of GC 's last works were privately printed. According to the original Dictionary of National Biography, she first used this means of publication for Quagmire Ahead, 1864, then for A Plea for...

Letters and other papers of MC 's survive in the British Library , the Bodleian Library , and Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service . Many of her works have become available in...

Both the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the British Library in London have important manuscripts of works by Christine de Pisan , many of them beautifully illuminated. Those at the British Library, including the Queen's...

CC 's unpublished manuscripts are held at the University of Bristol (Women's Theatre Archive, Department of Drama). The National Sound Archive at the British Library holds tape recordings of stage and radio plays. Radio play...