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CY found it easy to compose at speed: the story goes that she would work on three new pieces simultaneously: a page of one, a page of the second, a page of the third, in...

She spent two years working on this in secret, writing it in a discarded ledger of my father's, which she kept hidden. It was rejected by several firms before being accepted by the old-established...

Two copies are known to survive, at the British Library and at Harvard . Critic Steven Epley assigns this poem to her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, though the English Short Title...

ML 's The Pedlars, A Tale, written for the Kildare Place Society , seems to have been published not long before her death. Though it is unlisted in OCLC WorldCat, the British Library

A book published in 1865 entitled The Lacemakers, Sketches of Irish Character has been wrongly attributed to LAM .

It was printed at Norwich and sold through London publishers. The subscription list was impressive, including Anna Letitia Barbauld , John Brand (presumably HB 's brother) of Hemingston Hall in Suffolk, who took twenty copies...

Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire re-issued her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard at Paris with her own Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland.

In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...

MP 's comedy The Different Widows; or, Intrigue all-a-Mode, was anonymously published, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury .

HM was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay

A play entitled Zameo, acted this year, was printed with Jane Briancourt 's account of its supposed author as Memoir of Medora Gordon Byron. As the facts are given, this cannot be the...

AO was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs or her husband; a few are from her...

Apart from the manuscripts in Nottinghamshire Archives and Northumberland County Record Office , the British Library holds notebooks and letters of LH 's (Add. MS 39779, 46172, and 63788 B), besides her Memoirs of the...

The essays include prose, verse, and a number of pastiches of other writers. Two about Reading describe the London Library and the British Museum Reading Room . Others describe London literary life, or demonstrate Macaulay's...

Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...