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Textual Production C. E. Plumptre
CEP published her historical novel Giordano Bruno : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century in two volumes under her own name.
This work is misascribed to Charles Edward Plumptre by the Bodleian Library though not...
Reception Sylvia Plath
In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez (who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time ....
Textual Production Mary Pix
It was published the same year.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
2: 93
The British Library copy (841 e. 6) bears a contemporary note of MP 's name. The prologue (probably by Congreve , though given anonymously)
McKenzie, Donald Francis. “A New Congreve Literary Autograph”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xv
, No. 4, pp. 292-9.
297
implies that...
Textual Production Mary Pix
MP 's comedy The Different Widows; or, Intrigue all-a-Mode, was anonymously published, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury .
The widowed Countess of Salisbury was also celebrated by Anne Finch . A manuscript note...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
HP was determined that his manuscripts should not go abroad but remain in the British Library . This duly happened, first on loan and then by purchase.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
219
At the official handover ceremony in March...
Textual Production Katherine Philips
KP 's poems circulated extensively beyond the manuscripts mentioned in Patrick Thomas's edition. The British Library has further scattered texts, including one in KP 's rare holograph and two with musical settings. These have been...
Occupation Coventry Patmore
With help from his friends Adelaide Procter and Richard Monckton Milnes , CP was taken on as a supernumerary assistant in the department of printed books at the British Museum .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Eliza Parsons
In May, with only three weeks to go before publication and in desperate need of money, EP was attempting to get up a subscription for Lucy. She had (as she confided to the potential...
Publishing Eliza Parsons
An advertisement had promised this novel for 1 June.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 795
The title-page quotation is different for each volume. The third and last volume of the British Library set comes from a second edition published...
Textual Production Emma Parker
The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still.
Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby.
title-page
Feminist Companion Archive.
The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...
Textual Production Emma Parker
EP 's preface says she chose the epistolary form in order to concentrate on character, not incident. OCLC lists a single surviving copy at New York University , bearing a signature which appears to be...
Textual Production Christabel Pankhurst
OCLC lists forty copies of this publication surviving in libraries (many at bible colleges or theological seminaries), but not one outside North America: the title is not held by the British Library , the Bodleian
Textual Production Isabel Pagan
A Collection of Songs and Poems on Several Occasions written by Isobel Pagan was published at Glasgow: since she was illiterate, she had dictated the text to a friend, William Gemmell .
Textual Production Ouida
Ouida issued Critical Studies, her second collection of previously published essays.
The cover title on the British Library first edition reads Critical Essays.
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.
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.
Reception Dorothy Osborne
The first printing of DO letters in 1836 was well reviewed by Macaulay two years after it appeared. One recent literary-critical analysis is that of James Fitzmaurice and Martine Rey , Letters by Women in...

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