British Library

The British Library also holds MB 'unpublished autobiography, an unfinished fragment in 55 pages.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Her name appeared as Mrs. Kindersley. In the copy now in the British Library someone wrote by her name: Widow of an officer in His Majesty's Army.

FM was a speedy typist, and composed at the typewriter. She kept a notebook for jotting ideas for plots and episodes. She believed the business aspects of a literary career were more important than many...

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...

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...

This new publication was priced at one shilling. Its full title here was The Story of Inkle and Yarrico: A Most Moving Tale from the Spectator. The first poem opens A youth there was...

The British Library holds a volume of HL 's poems and stories written late in life and apparently never published.

CM 's manuscripts of poems and short stories and her unpublished letters are held in the British Library and in the Lockwood Memorial Library at SUNY Buffalo . The librarians at Buffalo are said to...

It was printed by Samuel Richardson . The British Library copy is T 1568 (7). The month after publication SC wrote to Richardson to express concern that he had identified her as the author: I...