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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...

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...

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.

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...

The poet Pope was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for...

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.

For years the British Museum (that part which is now the British Library ) shelved its copy of this poem in the suppressed safe of works so scandalous they had to be read under...

Mrs. Molesworth made herself a household name early in her career, and remained one for over a generation whenever books for children were discussed or memoirists recalled their early reading. On her death the obituary...

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 .

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...

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...

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.

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...

The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...