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Her inital plan for these last volumes, a social history of humankind during the Christian era, was to divide the material between five separate books of about 210 pages each, and sell them for about...

These letters are now in the British Library , together with Thomas Birch 's notes on them.

Its title in print—Lizzie Lothian. An Autobiographical Romance. By E. K. Coulson. With an Introduction by E. F. Coulson—seems to draw attention to the similarity of the names of wife and husband. In...

While travelling to and through Egypt, FN kept a diary. It was thought until recently that only one diary survived from this trip, the one covering the period 1 January-15 July 1850, held at...

This date, which heads the future Countess of Bridgewater 's collection of private prayers and meditations (now Egerton MS 607 in the British Library ), may or may not mark the earliest of its contents.

At her death Georgiana left all her voluminous letters and papers to the care of Lady Elizabeth Foster . Lady Elizabeth no doubt took decisions as to what to save and what to destroy that...

She was inspired to help the hospital by the fact that she had a daughter with tuberculosis, who died three years after this. She dated her prose preface from Belgravia, 23 June 1863.

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...

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...

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...

Subscribers included the Prince of Wales and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , her daughter the Countess of Carlisle , Charles Burney , Warren Hastings , Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble)

While compaigning for suffrage, AK owned and edited The Lady's Own Paper for a period of about three months, using her married name, Mrs Algernon Kingsford.

This text is not listed by OCLC or by the British Library catalogue, but the Bodleian Library has a copy.

Two manuscripts of it survive. British Library MS Egerton 2414 is probably AB 's original: neatly penned though eccentrically spelt and punctuated, untitled, and filling every scrap of every page, without paragraph breaks. The other...

This novel was advertised as soon to be published in July (at which date the title was to be Laure; or, The Parisian), and as recently published on 30 October. It has a...