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The fuller title was The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical. Several of them now first printed. Many of the bluestocking circle subscribed. Two British Library copies have different versions...

MT continued to publish small volumes of poetry during the next few years. Laura's Dream; or, The Moonlanders (seen in the twenty-first century as belonging to the category of science fiction) appeared at London in...

AT issued a tract entitled either A Voice for the King of Saints and Nations or A Lively Voice for the King of Saints and Nations.

She was buried on 11 February in the church there, where her monument (before it was obliterated by the feet of the passing congregation) recorded her poems in various languages . . . adorned with...

ET 's poems were circulating at least by 1714, in manuscript, or in the opportunistic publications of others, or both. After her death William Duncombe printed one of her imitations of odes by Horace which...

This survives in a manuscript copy, British Library Harley MS 7316. 68. It was printed in Edmund Curll 's Whartoniana, September 1727, unattributed, together with two other attributed poems by ET , and six...

Her authorship of this volume was first revealed in a note in Roger Lonsdale 's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets in 1989. Three copies are known to survive, at the British Library , Yale University ...

A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...

She brought this account of her life up to her husband's death. The original of this first book is not known to be extant, but a copy made by one of her descendants survives, identified...

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

The British Library holds the manuscript of Miss Bunting.

She wrote to her sister Katherine Aston , and after Katherine's death continued the correspondence with warmly intimate letters to her brother-in-law Herbert Aston . Nuns were not officially allowed to maintain non-religious correspondences, but...

Some of her manuscript letters are in the British Library as MS Additional 36452.

She says she had thought of publishing this letter (or a version of it) last winter, but had been persuaded against it. She informed Lord Jersey that she aimed to make just enough...

The British Library keeps its copy in the special locked cupboard which it reserves for pornographic books: those which it rightly supposes that some members of the reading public may be moved to deface. It...