British Library

In January 2011 the Richard and Judy Book Club listed Small Island as one of the 100 Books of the Decade. The manuscript of it was exhibited at the British Library as part...

AG 's popularly best-known poem today (though it is known without her name) must be Oh where, tell me where, is your Highland Laddie gone?. The British Library catalogue lists under Grant's name a...

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.

At her death, SG left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall , daughter of Haldane McFall .Her letters and papers are now...

The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .

Many of EL 's papers survive, although they are scattered. The largest collection is at Marsh's Library in Dublin. Collections of her correspondence survive in the Bodleian Library , Oxford, the Hove Central Library

Several of JL 's works now in the British Library were formerly owned by the artist and scene-painter Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg , who left annotations in a few of them.

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 ....

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...

The year 2018 was a high point in MK studies, with the first academic conference devoted to her, and the establishment of the Margery Kempe Society . Diane Watt summarized the growth of her reputation...

In winter 2017-18 a British Library exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, demonstrated how JKR mined old, esoteric texts, and how she worked at planning and structuring the novels.

Living as a writer made it highly desirable to move to London in order to have access to the British Museum 's Reading Room and to publishing opportunities. She defended her decision to her mother...

When not attending court, the couple probably lived in Yorkshire. A manuscript note in the British Library copy of AS 's book identifies her as of Rodd, which must mean Mayroid.

She left London during her crisis or breakdown in the years 1818-30, but returned there for her last years. She lodged in Lamb's Conduit Street, handy for reading in the old Reading-rooms of dismal...

This issue was a continuing interest of Barbauld's. She had contributed five hymns, anonymously, to William Enfield 's Hymns for Public Worship (published at Warrington in 1772), and had made manuscript notes in the...