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He was born Samuel Pipe, and assumed the name Wolferstan in connection with an inheritance; as well as his formidable estate at Statfold near Tamworth, he had another at Pipe near Lichfield. A...

EPW privately printed the first edition of her poem Flora & Pomona's Fête; or, The Origin of Botanical & Horticultural Meetings. A Poem After the Butterfly's Ball, in order to raise money for the...

Though the printed sheet bears no name, a manuscript note in the British Library copy identifies it as by EPW . A copy appears as the final item in the Bodleian Library 's composite volume...

In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...

Copies survive in the British Library , Cambridge University Library , and the library of the University of Pennsylvania .

SSW 's A Visit to London serves to exemplify the difficulty of dating her work (apart from her full-length novels). (It has also been ascribed to Elizabeth Kilner , but the chain of allusive authorship...

A second edition appeared in 1805 and a fifth in 1807. An undated one from William Darton , which claims to be the eighth, is dated by the British Library to around 1830.

The poet Pope was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for...

The British Library holds the world's only surviving copy, C. 39 b. 45; again, one cannot tell for certain whether it is a first edition or a re-issue. Richard Jones seems to have marketeed Nicholas Breton

A note in the British Library copy records (with some confusion about dates) that someone nailed this to the church door at Wickhamford in Worcestershire, during the Christmas season.

DW 's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie , Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie...

Beatrice Potter (the future Beatrice Webb) became a friend of Amy Levy during the 1880s through their shared use of the ladies' lunch room at the British Museum , where a group developed of young...

MW 's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces.

Her London University PhD dissertation, Wolfskins and Togas: lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present, is now digitally available through the British Library .

The unexplained tendency of reference sources to call her Elizabeth West instead of Elisabeth Wast (the name printed on the title-page of her book in its first edition) has caused that edition, which is not...