British Library

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...

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.

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 ....

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...

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.

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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 concentrates on the visits of her subjects to England in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. To all of them—Mallarmé (a poet she deeply loved), Verlaine (whose list of books probably read...

The romance story is richly embellished with detail: highwaymen, a house burning down, and debates on topics like music, national stereotypes, and the nature of love. Bellflœur goes by the name of Mr Flower...

Towards the end of her work LH addresses men, telling them her wish is that they should meet women halfway. Her expression of humility, or of dissatisfaction with her own work (my aerial car...