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Lord George Gordon was arrested on 9 June 1780 and sent to the Tower of London after the anti-Catholic riots bearing his name. He came to trial on 5 February 1781, but was acquitted the...

The poem's title-page announces its publication date. The second edition, published the same year is the only one listed by OCLC WorldCat or held by the British Library . It carried an advertisement of the...

SD decided to submit her script to Joan Littlewood after reading a newspaper report about a conflict between Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and the Lord Chamberlain. Her script was accepted immediately by Theatre Workshop but...

Meanwhile, however, in 1963 Nottingham Playhouse moved to new premises, and its three directors, Peter Ustinov , John Neville , and Frank Dunlop , commissioned from various writers including SDa series of short sketch...

In her home town of Salford a Delaney Theatre Group was launched in 2017 and an affordable housing development was named Delaney Heights, . On 25 May 2018 the British Library held an evening event...

A stage of the work was privately and anonymously printed as A Catalogue of Plants Copyed from Nature in Paper Mosaick, finished in the year 1778, and disposed in alphabetical order, according to the generic...

The chief collection of MD 's manuscripts is at the Central Library , Newport, Monmouthshire. Her autobiography has unfortunately disappeared, but other papers are in the Portland Collection at the University of Nottingham ...

Again she wrote at Rungstedlund, first in English and then in Danish. She had her English manuscript conveyed in the diplomatic pouch of Sweden (a neutral country) to Random House in New York...

Elizabeth Bunce was a niece or cousin of the poet. She and her husband preserved this poem (perhaps written too late for the volume, perhaps regarded as still too private) with others in transcriptions laid...

McMaster University has a copy of SD 's Poems on Several Occasions which contains contemporary manuscript notes, and an extra unpublished poem (on the familiar topic of an abandoned shepherdess) written on pages laid into...

In her pamphlet dated 11 April 1699, AD said she was past her seventy-fifth birthday.

In her pamphlet dated 11 April 1699, AD wrote that, through Mercy, I can walk the Streets to visit the Sick, and my Friends and Relations also, and can see without Spectacles still.

On 27 December 1838, Dickens wrote to HD about an unidentified (and possibly unpublished) piece he called the unfortunate Hen. He addressed her as Sir and begged H. Downing Esquire not...

HD composed an Ode on Qu[een] Victoria 's Coronation, of which a copy survives in the British Library .

Its full title was The Case of Ann, Countess of Anglesey, lately Deceased, lawful wife of Richard Annesley, late Earl of Anglesey , and of her three surviving Daughters, Lady Dorothea, Lady Caroline, and Lady...