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Textual Production Josephine Butler
It is listed by the British Library catalogue in JB 's name only, but she had help from the other women. Earlier in the year she had given an address on women's rights and protective...
Textual Production Dorothea Du Bois
She dedicated it to Lady Hertford . A manuscript note on the title-page of the British Library copy says, containing her own Life and Adventures;
Du Bois, Dorothea. Theodora. Printed for the author by C. Kiernan, 1770, 2 vols.
title-page manuscript note
on the verso the same hand...
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture given at the University of Wales , Swansea, was published the same year under the title Donkey Business; donkey work: magic and metamorphosis in contemporary opera...
Textual Production Susanna Haswell Rowson
SHR 's final publication, at Boston two years before her death, was Biblical Dialogues between a Father and his Family in two volumes, a book of family instruction in the Bible.
Neither the British Library
Textual Production Laura Ormiston Chant
A prolific poet throughout her career, LOC also wrote songs and composed music for them. The British Library attributes the following (along with a number of other poetic and musical works) to Chant in its...
Textual Production Ann Lady Fanshawe
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...
Textual Production C. E. Plumptre
CEP published her historical novel Giordano Bruno : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century in two volumes under her own name.
This work is misascribed to Charles Edward Plumptre by the Bodleian Library though not...
Textual Production Frances Sarah Hoey
Her letters to Edmund Downey survive in the National Library of Ireland , while correspondence between her and her publishers is in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL published Sowing the Wind, A Novel, which the Athenæum pronounced to be an uncommon novel
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2054 (1867): 317
and a vast improvement on its predecessor.
The British Library has no copy of the...
Textual Production Edith Mary Moore
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...
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY anonymously published her first novel, Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit.
Dictionary of Literary Biography 18 lists only the reprint of 1848.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983.
18: 308
The British Library has the second edition but not the first.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
58
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT must have written this by 1754, when George Berkeley transcribed it with notes on making use of it for his sermons. His copy (now British Library Additional MS 46689) is titled Meditations. It...
Textual Production Ouida
Ouida issued Critical Studies, her second collection of previously published essays.
The cover title on the British Library first edition reads Critical Essays.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Textual Production Lucy Hutchinson
She said she undertook this work out of youthful curiosity to understand things I heard so much discourse of at second hand.
qtd. in
Mayo, Thomas Franklin. Epicurus in England (1650-1725). Southwest Press, 1934.
21
She worked in her children's schoolroom, number[ing] the sillables . ....
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
The British Library copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood (prompter at Drury Lane ) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again...

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