Young, Mary Julia. Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches. H. D. Symonds and J. Gray.
1792, prelims
British Library
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | MJY
allowed her poem Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches to appear in print attributed only to a Lady. |
| Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | MJY
has been credited with the sentimental, anti-war Horatio and Amanda. A Poem, by a Young Lady, 1777 (second edition 1788). The British Library
copy of the first edition has Miss Mary Young written... |
| Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | The poem is dedicated by their sincere admirer, the author, to those, whose dramatic excellence suggested it. |
| Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | Her title-page lists many of the poems contained in the volume. Once again it bears her name and mentions her authorship of a novel, Rose-Mount Castle. An engraved frontispiece, dated 1 March 1801, shows... |
| Literary responses | Mary Julia Young | An apparently contemporary hand wrote in the British Library
copy: Rubbish. |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | CY
anonymously published her first novel, Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18 lists only the reprint of 1848. Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research. 18: 308 Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company. 58 |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | CY
's surviving letters are mostly at the British Library
, Harvard University
, and Princeton University
. |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | CY
found it easy to compose at speed: the story goes that she would work on three new pieces simultaneously: a page of one, a page of the second, a page of the third, in... |
| Textual Production | Frances Wright | The play was published the same year by Matthew Carey
at Philadelphia. A London edition followed in 1822. The British Library
holds copies of each edition containing manuscript notes. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library
(M7060). The only extant recording of... |
| Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | It continued weekly until April 1895 (the year Virginia's mother died). Two of its stories (A Cockney's Farming Experiences and The Experiences of a Paterfamilias) were published in the late twentieth century. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 781n64 |
| Literary Setting | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room is often said to be the first of VW
's fictional recreations of her brother Thoby (the others being The Waves and A Sketch of the Past). Hermione Lee calls the work... |
| Publishing | A. Woodfin | There was a second edition in 1770, which is held by the British Library
. |
| Publishing | A. Woodfin | |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | EPW
published at Lichfield her Fairy Tales in Verse. The title-page of the Bodleian Library
copy (bound into the composite volume mentioned above, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059) says this work was published at... |
Timeline
By 3 March 1470: Sir Thomas Malory, a political prisoner in...
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By 3 March 1470
Sir Thomas Malory
, a political prisoner in London, most probably in the Tower, finished compiling and writing his collection of legendaryArthurian
romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.
About 1529: The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated...
Building item
About 1529
The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated by Richard Hyrde
from Juan Luis Vives
of Valencia in Spain, was published, after the translator's death.
About the 1530s-1540s: The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library...
Women writers item
About the 1530s-1540s
The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library
Add. 17492) was compiled in large part by women, who edited and probably wrote and transcribed a number of the poems. The title-page of Elizabeth Heale
's edition, 2012...
After July 1553: An unknown person presented to Queen Mary...
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After July 1553
An unknown person presented to Queen Mary Tudor
the finely illuminated manuscript now known as the Queen Mary Psalter (Royal 2 B vii in the British Library
).
Before 1638: William Page, Fellow of All Souls College,...
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Before 1638
William Page
, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
, created a proto-feminist text entitled Womens Worth: A Treatise proveing by sundrie reasons that woemen do excell men.
31 October 1658 : Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Thomas Austen...
Women writers item
31 October 1658
Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Thomas Austen
died. His widow, Katherine
, kept a series of manuscript books containing religious meditations, notes about her life, family records, and poems (mostly religious).
From 1662: The King's Library (now part of the British...
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From 1662
The King's Library (now part of the British Library
) and Cambridge University Library
enjoyed the legal right to a copy of every book published in Britain (a right granted to the Bodleian
on 11...
By 6 April 1742: An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess...
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By 6 April 1742
An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, a politicalapologia and attack on her enemies composed by her over almost forty years with various helpers, appeared a few weeks after Prime Minister...
15 January 1759: The British Museum (including what had formerly...
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15 January 1759
The British Museum
(including what had formerly been known as the King's Library
), established six years earlier, was first opened to the public.
1798-1800: August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel...
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1798-1800
August Wilhelm
and Friedrich von Schlegel
published their periodicalDas Athenäum, the manifesto of the German Romantic movement.
1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
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1838
Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria
's Scottish ancestry.
1867: The library of books by women collected by...
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1867
The library of books by women collected by the Rev. Francis John Stainforth
was sold at Sotheby
's and the greater part of it acquired for the British Museum (that part of it which is...
1881: A religious novel published this year with...
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1881
A religiousnovel published this year with 1882 on its title-page, Nellie; or Seeking Goodly Pearls by Mrs Meredith, has been wrongly ascribed to Louisa Anne Meredith
, but is actually by the Evangelical Christian Susanna Meredith
.
31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...
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31 October 1910
Frances Olive Underhill
, a graduate of Royal Holloway College
, was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson
Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian
: the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...
1939: Peig Sayers published in Ireland her Machtnamh...
Women writers item
1939
Peig Sayers
published in Ireland her Machtnamh seana-mhná (whose title is here transliterated from Irish script, as it is in the British Library
catalogue).
Texts
Austen-Leigh, William, and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh. Jane Austen: A Family Record. Editor Le Faye, Deirdre, British Library, 1989.
Bell, Quentin, and Virginia Woolf. The Charleston Bulletin Supplements. Editor Olk, Claudia, British Library, 2013.
Forster, Antonia. Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800. British Library, 1997.
Marson, Una. At What a Price. British Library, 1932.