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Textual Production Rachel Speght
RS chose the same publisher as Swetnam's, which seems to indicate a perception of her debate with him as worth pushing along for doctrinal or commercial reasons.
Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
65
, No. 3/4, pp. 449-63.
452
The British Library copy (one of eight...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS edited and published A Selection of Poems by Emily Brontë, with an introduction, for the Crown Classics Series published by Grey Walls Press .
Though this was the official publication date, the British Library
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
A Man and Some Women was never published. A typescript is available in the Lord Chamberlain's collection at the British Library .
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
It ran for only nineteen performances.
Fitzsimmons, Linda. “Githa Sowerby (1876-1970)”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, pp. 135-7.
136
Compton explained that the daylight air raids, which began soon after the play's opening, discouraged theatre audiences from attending public events.
Compton, Fay. Rosemary: Some Remembrances. Alston Rivers.
157
The play was never published, but...
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
The Play Actors were a London society whose mandate was to encourage new authors, many of them from outside London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
272
The play was never taken on by a regular theatre company, or published until...
Publishing Joanna Southcott
This reached a fourth edition in 1814; a copy of one edition in the British Library contains manuscript notes. This was just one of a number of collections (for instance, The Prophecies of Joanna Southcott...
Publishing Harriet Smythies
The novel was reprinted in volume form in 1880 by J. and R. Maxwell .
Dated from the acquisition stamp in the British Library copy. Montague Summers writes that upon its reappearance it was thought...
Textual Production Harriet Smythies
She was inspired to help the hospital by the fact that she had a daughter with tuberculosis, who died three years after this.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
She dated her prose preface from Belgravia, 23 June 1863.
The...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lucy Toulmin Smith
Smith provides a thorough summary of the state of librarianship as a profession at the time. She notes that even for men, librarianship is a fledgling profession, so that women seeking to join it may...
Textual Production Constance Smedley
An appendix, Women and the State by Ethel Snowden , was reprinted from the January number of The World's Work, giving a brief history of women in local government and public positions.
Smedley, Constance, and Mrs Philip Snowden. Woman: A Few Shrieks!. Garden City Press.
121ff
The...
Textual Production Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
The series of watercolours by EPS which her husband presented to George III are now in the British Library .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
death Arabella Shore
She left her sister Emily 's manuscript diary to the British Museum (that part of it which is now the British Library ) but her will never reached probate and the papers never reached the depository.
Gates, Barbara T., and Margaret Emily Shore. “Self-writing as Legacy: The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Journal of Emily Shore</span&gt”;. Journal of Emily Shore: Revised and Expanded.
Publishing Margaret Emily Shore
The fully indexed text received a second edition in 1898 with drawings by MES .
Shore, Margaret Emily. Journal of Emily Shore. Editors Shore, Louisa Catherine and Arabella Shore, Kegan Paul.
375
Arabella Shore willed the volumes to the British Museum (now the British Library ), but her will was never...
Author summary Mary Martha Sherwood
MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
Another of MMS 's books of this kind was The History of Henry Milner, a little boy, who was not brought up according to the fashions of this world, whose hero is based on...

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