British Library

Elizabeth Bunce was a niece or cousin of the poet. She and her husband preserved this poem (perhaps written too late for the volume, perhaps regarded as still too private) with others in transcriptions laid...

The British Library holds the world's only surviving copy, C. 39 b. 45; again, one cannot tell for certain whether it is a first edition or a re-issue. Richard Jones seems to have marketeed Nicholas Breton

An appendix, Women and the State by Ethel Snowden , was reprinted from the January number of The World's Work, giving a brief history of women in local government and public positions. The...

FN published Olive Varcoe, A Novel under her pseudonym Francis Derrick.

This appeared as printed for the author. MC says her frontispiece, sketched in 1834, was to be her very last attempt at holding a pencil. Most of the lavish illustrations were by her...

In this collaborative book, John Gilbert wrote most of the first 26 pages and AHG the next 18 pages. The Wesleyan missionary William Box also had a hand in the story, which was continued past...

Pope's poem was two years old, but the Gentleman's Magazine had recently reprinted it. Ashley Cowper kept a copy of AI 's riposte, attributed to her by name, in his Family Miscellany, British Library

JCM 's surviving writings, long preserved in family hands, are in the Hertfordshire Record Office , the British Library and the Bodleian . She did not write for publication, though it seems that she was...

AS published with her name, at Sheffield through the poet James Montgomery , Blindness. A Poem, Written at the request of an artist, who lost his sight.

The title is a complex allusion to traditional gender roles, specifically to the sex appeal of male martial prowess. John Dryden 's line None but the brave deserve the fair (itself in context a propaganda...

All five were among the first six volumes in the India Railway Library . Their covers bore illustrations by Kipling's father, Lockwood . All were quickly issued at London. The British Library holds...

This reached print only two years before a book on the same outrageously camp figure by a younger writer, Brigid Brophy . The British Library keeps its copy in the category of books likely to...

ER , as the author of Whitefriars, published Caesar Borgia , An Historical Romance: the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library though not the British Library hold copies of this edition.

Her one-day-at-a-time structuring makes the work particularly like a diary in appearance, though its composition was retrospective. She seems to have written not for the usual religious, moralistic, or business reasons (though she offers somewhat...

The Dublin reprint, reduced from three volumes to two, is now slightly less rare than the original, with three copies listed in the English Short Title Catalogue (including one in the British Library ) as...