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Meanwhile, Lady Frances begins by building one hundred dwellings (designed by Capability Brown ) to house artisans and workmen, and proceeds to construct a museum, library, astronomical observatory, an anatomy room, studios, a botanical garden...

Woodville/Davenant credits his rescue from dissipation and folly partly to the virtuous Fanny and partly to learning the effects of seduction. His emotional education involves a scene which would humanize the heart even...

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...

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...

EE 's preliminary list of names suggests considerable research work: it includes several ancient or Anglo-Saxon women as well as Mary Astell , Anne Bacon , Katherine Chidley (as the pamphlet antagonist of Thomas Edwards

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...

Young though LJL was, her play (written for a domestic audience of readers, possibly of spectators) participated in the intellectual debates of its time. She worked from an edition of the original Greek, published in...

The British Library copy differs from other extant copies in adding a concluding poem of eleven couplets (about the soul's parting from the body, after death has rendered the body disgusting), which is now known...

Seven years into the story, Erica is earning money by journalism (she enjoys working in the homelike reading room of the British Museum ). Brian has admitted to himself that he is in love with...

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...

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...

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...

Between 1838 and 1862 seven more volumes were privately printed, under the same title. The British Library has two editions which include personal notes to friends.

The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the Minerva Press: The English-Woman, A Novel. Not until a British Library (then the British Museum ) catalogue of 1885 was the...