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Textual Production Andrea Levy
In 2018 Back to my Own Country was featured as one of the British Library 's Windrush Stories, marking the seventieth anniversary of the docking of the Empire Windrush, one of the first ships...
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
Her papers are held at the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada . Letters to her publisher Richard Bentley are available in the British Library .
Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada.
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
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 Queen Elizabeth I
This is the first item in her Collected Works, which divides her life into four periods and treats within each period speeches (where they exist), letters, poems, and prayers. This edition excludes her translations...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell translated Lyrics from the Chinese, published this year as her first book.
Biographer Monica Blackett dates this publication 1915, but both the British Library and the Bodleian Library catalogues clearly list an...
Textual Production Emma Parker
The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still.
Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby, 1811, 4 vols.
title-page
qtd. in
Feminist Companion Archive.
The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...
Textual Production Mary Catherine Hume
Tulk, her friend and mentor and a leading Swedenborg ian, had died the previous year.
The British Library copy has a newspaper cutting bound in, and manuscript notes.
A second edition, expanded by C. Pooley
Textual Production Frances O'Neill
The British Library copy is missing two pages.
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.
Its catalogue calls her (in 2007) Francis O'Neill, but her title-page says clearly Frances.
The work was printed in Bloomsbury and Published for the Authoress...
Textual Production Maria Barrell
The dedication is signed Maria Barrell, though the title-page renders this in at least some copies as Maria Arrell.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Scholar Janet Todd notes that MB focused on the issue of imprisonment for debtors and...
Textual Production Sarah Chapone
Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany) and John Wesley had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.)
Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, 2018, pp. 1-16.
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Both Pendarves
Textual Production Elizabeth Tollet
This survives in a manuscript copy, British Library Harley MS 7316. 68. It was printed in Edmund Curll 's Whartoniana, September 1727, unattributed, together with two other attributed poems by ET , and six...
Textual Production Elizabeth Joscelin
EJ seems to have begun writing when she felt herself quick with child (or first felt the foetus moving inside her); this was also when she ordered her winding-sheet or shroud. Unequivocally, it seems, her...
Textual Production Bathsua Makin
The title-page, in Latin, names her father as well as herself, mentions her tender age, and bears epigraphs in Greek and French. The British Library copy has a note on its final page in the...
Textual Production Mathilde Blind
The British Library also holds MB 'unpublished autobiography, an unfinished fragment in 55 pages.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
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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...

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