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LAC was helped with her literary labours by several scribes, notably one Edward Langley . Of the four copies which she dictated and kept at various of her residences, one survives, corrected by herself: in...

In 1849 FPC produced a lengthy manuscript titled An Essay on True Religion Being a reply to the question Why are you a Deist? Critic Sally Mitchell compares it to a competent doctoral thesis.

EC was very likely the (supposedly male) editor of The Chaplet, Poems, partly original and partly selected from the most approved authors, an Ipswich anthology of poetry with good representation of women.

The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse (drawn by EC herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus , addressed...

CC was a prolific writer on her faith. Between 1917 and 1947, she published a number of books and pamphlets: Looking Forward: The Coming Faith and the Coming Social Order (1918), On Lecturing and Lecture...

This correspondence is just part of a large haul discovered by Horace Walpole in August 1758, lying around disregarded at Ragley Hall, partly rotten and partly gnawed by rats. Walpole rescued the collection and...

As well as writings by CC now among the Beachcroft family private archive (at the Bodleian Library ) and the Stoneleigh papers (at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust , Stratford-upon-Avon), the letters whose backs Frances Burney

She identified herself on the title-page as the Authoress of the Exemplary Mother, and used Dodsley , her usual publisher. She dedicated her novel in its new form to Letitia, Lady Beauchamp-Proctor (wife of the...

The British Library paid over £30,000 for WC 's archive: not only papers, but electronic texts: a server hosting Cope's email correspondence.

Cornford's papers are kept at the British Library . Some of her letters have been published in Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound, an edition of the works of her son John Cornford .

Her inital plan for these last volumes, a social history of humankind during the Christian era, was to divide the material between five separate books of about 210 pages each, and sell them for about...

This reached print only two years before a book on the same outrageously camp figure by a younger writer, Brigid Brophy . The British Library keeps its copy in the category of books likely to...

ADA 's Oxford university satire Academia had a new, anonymous edition (the original owner of the British Library 's copy recorded the full date on the title-page).

AD regularly gave away copies of her work to female friends, sometimes as wedding presents. The Chawton House Library copy is inscribed as her gift to the Hon. Agar Ellison . The Lewis Walpole Library

Though its title includes the figure 1911, it was published (by Bowes and Bowes of Cambridge) in 1912. The British Library , the Bodleian Library , and Cambridge University Library boast copies. It is clearly extremely rare.