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Textual Production Catharine Trotter
CT contributed Calliope: The Heroick Muse to The Nine Muses, Manley 's collection of elegies by women on Dryden 's death, published by 26 September 1700.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
31-2
A different poem by her, On the...
Textual Production Janet Schaw
The first copy uncovered by scholars is now Egerton MS 2423 in the British Library collections. At the date when the work appeared in print, the Vetch manuscript was owned and kept private by Schaw...
Textual Production Annie Besant
Over the following months, Thomas Scott paid AB for further pamphlets which she assiduously researched in the British Museum , producing titles such as Inspiration, The Atonement, Meditation and Salvation, Eternal Torture...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cobbold
EC was very likely the (supposedly male) editor of The Chaplet, Poems, partly original and partly selected from the most approved authors, an Ipswich anthology of poetry with good representation of women.
Textual Production Edith Templeton
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...
Textual Production Rose Hickman
The British Library has three copies of her work, but none is her original. The earliest, most likely made by her son William Hickman around the date of her death, is bound up with an...
Textual Production Alethea Lewis
The subscribers included George Crabbe and his wife , and Mary Meeke (who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale ...
Textual Production Edith Mary Moore
EMM , calling herself by only part of her name, Mary Moore, appears to have published The Defeat of Woman, an 87-page non-fictional treatise on women and society.
Dated from the British Library acquisition stamp.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
She dedicated it to her patron Lady Hertford . The British Library copy is 12604 ccc. 7. Harvard University holds the only known copy of an undated set of subscription proposals, which is headed Any...
Textual Production Mary Delany
A stage of the work was privately and anonymously printed as A Catalogue of Plants Copyed from Nature in Paper Mosaick, finished in the year 1778, and disposed in alphabetical order, according to the generic...
Textual Production Rachel Speght
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.
Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
65
, No. 3/4, 2002, pp. 449-63.
452
The British Library copy (one of eight...
Textual Production Emma Parker
EP 's preface says she chose the epistolary form in order to concentrate on character, not incident. OCLC lists a single surviving copy at New York University , bearing a signature which appears to be...
Textual Production Sophia Hume
SH published a signed broadside, A Word of Advice and Warning to Handicrafts-men, Labourers, Carmen, Coachmen, Chairmen, &c.
The British Library assigns this tentative date to its copy of this broadside, the only known copy...
Textual Production Constance Lytton
CL 's letters and papers are mostly at institutions in London. Her manuscript account of her prison experiences, with other papers, is in the Museum of London . Her letters to Arthur James Balfour
Textual Production Frances Isabella Duberly
During her time in CrimeaFID kept a diary (whose manuscript does not survive) and sent regular letters home to her sister Selina (now British Library Additional Manuscripts 47218). She told Selina that writing to...

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