British Library

Some of MB 's letters survive in the British Library .

She identified herself on the title-page as the Authoress of the Exemplary Mother, and used Dodsley , her usual publisher. She dedicated her novel in its new form to Letitia, Lady Beauchamp-Proctor (wife of the...

These letters are now in the British Library among Add. MS 30869-30871. One of them was printed by John Almon in his edition of Wilkes's Correspondence, 1805. During these years she sent Wilkes...

Of this book (written among the industrial surroundings of Stourbridge in Worcestershire) neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has a copy. By now, however, ASS was issuing several books per year.

HP was determined that his manuscripts should not go abroad but remain in the British Library . This duly happened, first on loan and then by purchase. At the official handover ceremony in March...

Historian Dorothy L. Latz prints or discusses several of CH 's religious works. A Method to Converse with God, a translation, survives as British Library Harleian MS 3184; Latz suspects CH may have written...

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...

The young writer allegedly authored one or more essays about Jersey for a book by her mentor Henry David Inglis that must be his The Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Aldernay &c. (The Results of a...

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. She later recorded the...

The possibility that MM authored other poems, either among the contents of British Library (MS Add. 18,044), which includes some signed work by several people she knew, or the tombstone inscription for her third husband...

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...

It seems that LH wrote this book in November 1787, at a time when she was probably ill, since she had a premonition of her own death. It was deposited in the parish chest (where...

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...

Helen Waddell translated Lyrics from the Chinese, published this year as her first book.

On 12 April 1836 CG wrote in her diary, I am iron now. This was a kind of pun: she meant that her life is altered into one of action, not of sentiment...