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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 Mary Fortune
These stories had appeared in the Journal between 1870 and 1871. The volume was printed in Melbourne by the publishers of The Australian Journal in what seems to have been a small run; OCLC lists...
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 Angela Brazil
She wrote the plays in Wales, where she used to entertain the local children with impromptu stories. Neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has a copy of the original: the former has a...
Textual Production Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
As she became more deeply involved in politics in late 1782, Georgiana Devonshire expressed a hope to become one day a faithful historian of the secret history of the times.
qtd. in
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
94
She later recorded the...
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.
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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 Diana Athill
Neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has (in 2019) a copy of this book. Because it was firmly believed at Deutsch, where Athill worked, that short stories by unknown writers were publishing poison...
Textual Production Anna Atkins
It appeared before Fox Talbot 's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially...
Textual Production Mary Caesar
She describes her motivation like this: My Begining to wright was for amusement, when maloncarly on the Death of Our Great Friend Treasurr Oxford , and the Absence of Mr Caesar , to whom I...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
In old age QEI translated Boethius, Plutarch, Tacitus , and Horace. Most of this work was printed as Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, 1899. Her rendering of the opening passage of Petrarch 's The Triumph of...
Textual Production Constantia Grierson
A political poem in CG 's volume (untitled, about the willingness of the Anglo-Irish gentry to spend any money to get into the purely figurehead Irish Parliament ) also survives in a copy among Lord Oxford
Textual Production Margery Kempe
This original manuscript is not extant. The text survives only in one copy (slightly damaged by mice or rats) by a third scribe, made around 1450.
Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, edited by Sanford Brown Meech et al., Oxford University Press, 1940, p. vii - lii.
xxxii-xxxiii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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