British Library

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Amelia Opie
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...
Textual Production Lucy Hutchinson
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...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
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...
Textual Production Dora Carrington
Carrington's paintings are housed in such institutions as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery , the Tate Gallery , the Slade School of Art , and private collections. Many of her papers, mainly letters and diaries...
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
Another of MMS 's books of this kind was The History of Henry Milner, a little boy, who was not brought up according to the fashions of this world, whose hero is based on...
Textual Production Hannah Kilham
Editor Fiona Robertson says that HK 's Report on a Recent Visit to the Colony of Sierra Leone, 1828, was preceded by a briefer report to the Committee of the Society of Friends for Promoting African Instruction
Textual Production Marie de France
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that MF's latest work by date is her collection of 102 Fables in the manner of Aesop , translated into French from the English of someone called Alfred...
Textual Production Inez Bensusan
It was never published, but a typescript is available in the Lord Chamberlain's collection at the British Library in London.
Pfisterer, Susan, and Carolyn Pickett. Playing with Ideas. Currency Press, 1999.
62n36
Textual Production Stella Benson
SB 's letter-writing kept her in touch with communities of writers and was a personal lifeline during her isolated years in China. Among her correspondents were Virginia Woolf and Sydney Schiff (Stephen Hudson). Some letters...
Textual Production Lady Anne Clifford
LAC was helped with her literary labours by several scribes, notably one Edward Langley . Of the four copies which she dictated and kept at various of her residences, one survives, corrected by herself: in...
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
Her title-page lists many of the poems contained in the volume. Once again it bears her name and mentions her authorship of a novel, Rose-Mount Castle. An engraved frontispiece, dated 1 March 1801, shows...
Textual Production Ann Thicknesse
She says she had thought of publishing this letter (or a version of it) last winter, but had been persuaded against it.
Thicknesse, Ann. A Letter from Miss F—d. 1761.
35
She informed Lord Jersey that she aimed to make just enough...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
A complete edition of her surviving Letters appeared between 1997 and 2004, edited by Antony H. Harrison .
Rossetti, Christina. The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Editor Harrison, Antony H., University Press of Virginia, 1997–2004, 4 vols.
Harrison notes that few letters to her mother or sister exist since she was in the habit...
Textual Production Mary Leadbeater
Apart from the letters to Trench and others printed in The Leadbeater Papers, ML 's letters to George Crabbe are now British Library MS Egerton 3709A. Her diary, now in the National Library of Ireland
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
The date comes from an advertisement in the Monthly Catalogue, which placed the work among miscellaneous pamphlets, not poetry.
Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta, 2003.
44n2
EB sold the copyright, plus three hundred remaining copies, at B. Creake 's trade...

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.