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Reception Sarah Grand
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 .
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
334-5, 100
Her letters and papers are now...
Reception Rosa Nouchette Carey
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 .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Reception Emily Lawless
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
Reception Jane Lead
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.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
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 ....
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...
Reception Margery Kempe
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...
Reception J. K. Rowling
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.
Rundell, Katherine. “At the British Library”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 24, 14 Dec. 2017, p. 22.
Reception Jo Shapcott
JS is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and in 1997 she held the position of Penguin Writers Fellow at the British Library . She was made a CBE (Commander of the...
Reception Shelagh Delaney
In her home town of Salford a Delaney Theatre Group was launched in 2017 and an affordable housing development was named Delaney Heights, . On 25 May 2018 the British Library held an evening event...
Reception Rose Allatini
At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed...
Residence Mary Matilda Betham
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...
Residence Harriet Martineau
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...
Residence Alice Sutcliffe
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.
Hughey, Ruth. “Forgotten Verses by Ben Jonson, George Wither, and Others to Alice Sutcliffe”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
10
, No. 38, Apr. 1934, pp. 156-64.
156 and n3
Textual Features Dorothy Boulger
Many of them flag through their titles the fact that their pivotal roles belong to women, in a way that suggests they were intended for a mostly female audience. Such titles include two which look...

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