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British Library
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Baker | The 1930 Players
were a group organized by Inez Bensusan
, an Australian-born actress and playwright who had been instrumental in forming the Actresses' Franchise League
. Penelope Forgives was never published, but a typescript... |
Textual Production | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | In her will ALF
left all works written by herself and her daughters to one of them, Katherine: this suggests a household of women writers, possibly on domestic subjects. In 1651, with her husband away... |
Textual Production | Catherine Holland | Historian Dorothy L. Latz
prints or discusses several of CH
's religious works. A Method to Converse with God, a translation, survives as British Library
Harleian MS 3184; Latz suspects CH
may have written... |
Textual Production | Alethea Lewis | The subscribers included George Crabbe
and his wife
, and Mary Meeke
(who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale
... |
Textual Production | Edith Mary Moore | EMM
, calling herself by only part of her name, Mary Moore, appears to have published The Defeat of Woman, an 87-page non-fictional treatise on women and society. Dated from the British Library
acquisition stamp. |
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, Fay. Rosemary: Some Remembrances. Alston Rivers. 157 |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | Matilda Betham
published at Ipswich her first book, Elegies, and other Small Poems (including many in ballad metre), dedicated to Lady Jerningham
. The British Library
has a copy of this work published in London... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cobbold | The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse
(drawn by EC
herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus
, addressed... |
Textual Production | Lucy Hutton | It seems that LH
wrote this book in November 1787, at a time when she was probably ill, since she had a premonition of her own death. It was deposited in the parish chest (where... |
Textual Production | Constance Lytton | CL
's letters and papers are mostly at institutions in London. Her manuscript account of her prison experiences, with other papers, is in the Museum of London
. Her letters to Arthur James Balfour |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | AO
was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library
includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs
or her husband; a few are from her... |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley
, it seems that CT
wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 117 |
Textual Production | Martha Hale | Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, her daughter the Countess of Carlisle
, Charles Burney
, Warren Hastings
, Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble) |
Textual Production | Anna Kingsford | While compaigning for suffrage, AK
owned and edited The Lady's Own Paper for a period of about three months, using her married name, Mrs Algernon Kingsford. Sources disagree about the length of her editorship (as... |
Textual Production | Bathsua Makin | The Bodleian Library
holds poems by BM
(not indexed under M); the British Library
has a copy of Musa Virginea with a note on the final page in her writing. The Huntington Library
has her... |
Timeline
20 October 1940: 10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish...
Writing climate item
20 October 1940
10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish newspapers held by the British Museum
were destroyed and a further 15,000 were damaged by bombing at Colindale north of London.
25 October 1997: The Round Reading Room at the British Library...
Building item
25 October 1997
The Round Reading Room at the British Library
was finally closed.
7 February 2007: First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded...
Women writers item
7 February 2007
First-time writer Stef Penney
was awarded the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year prize (worth £25,000) for her novelThe Tenderness of Wolves.
6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...
Writing climate item
6 October 2010
A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes
, Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC
's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce
.
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.
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