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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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 1930 Players were a group organized by Inez Bensusan , an Australian-born actress and playwright who had been instrumental in forming the Actresses' Franchise League . Penelope Forgives was never published, but a typescript...

In her will ALF left all works written by herself and her daughters to one of them, Katherine: this suggests a household of women writers, possibly on domestic subjects. In 1651, with her husband away...

Historian Dorothy L. Latz prints or discusses several of CH 's religious works. A Method to Converse with God, a translation, survives as British Library Harleian MS 3184; Latz suspects CH may have written...

The publisher was C. W. Daniel and Co. The title-page gives the author's name as Mary Moore, but it seems clear from its content that it is by EMM . (The cataloguer for the...

Matilda Betham published at Ipswich her first book, Elegies, and other Small Poems (including many in ballad metre), dedicated to Lady Jerningham .