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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 .

The British Library keeps its copy in the special locked cupboard which it reserves for pornographic books: those which it rightly supposes that some members of the reading public may be moved to deface. It...

She dedicated it to a baronet's wife, Lady Cockburn . Since Robinson (who had not published her previous novel) had paid her thirty pounds as long ago as March 1783, it seems that this must...

HD composed an Ode on Qu[een] Victoria 's Coronation, of which a copy survives in the British Library .

OM published her ninth and shortest novel, The Play Room (which appeared the same year in the USA as Camperlea Girls).

Besides her diaries, KR left letters, notebooks, and other manuscripts which are now in the British Library and other British and American collections.

EA wrote this work at Newbury in Berkshire, as a childless wife who had lost four children to death and had recently gone through the experience of religious despair followed by assurances of her...

The title-page read Poetical Attempts By Ann Candler, A Suffolk Cottager, with a Short Narrative of her Life. The British Library copy (shelfmark 11632 aa. 11) contains some manuscript notes. Part of her text...

She almost certainly kept it for religious reasons. The period covered is one of generally uneventful life in the country, at Hackness in North Yorkshire, with occasional visits to London. Parts of the...

AS published with her name, at Sheffield through the poet James Montgomery , Blindness. A Poem, Written at the request of an artist, who lost his sight.

These letters are now in the British Library among Add. MS 30869-30871. One of them was printed by John Almon in his edition of Wilkes's Correspondence, 1805. During these years she sent Wilkes...

VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939. Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...

ELL published Sowing the Wind, A Novel, which the Athenæum pronounced to be an uncommon novel and a vast improvement on its predecessor.

A novel entitled A Wilful Widow, which appeared in 1913, is evidently by EMM . Difficulties with George Allen had apparently caused her to change publishers (for the second time) to Constable . The...

RS chose the same publisher as Swetnam's, which seems to indicate a perception of her debate with him as worth pushing along for doctrinal or commercial reasons. The British Library copy (one of eight...