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EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...

AB hit her stride this year, publishing many contributions to magazines as well as several books, including The Nicest Girl in the School, which proved her most popular text: it sold 153,000 copies.

Copies survive in the British Library , Cambridge University Library , and the library of the University of Pennsylvania .

ALS wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems...

The British Library holds two of her letters.

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...

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.

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...

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...

The dedication is signed Maria Barrell, though the title-page renders this in at least some copies as Maria Arrell. Scholar Janet Todd notes that MB focused on the issue of imprisonment for debtors and...

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.) Both Pendarves

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...

The first copy uncovered by scholars is now Egerton MS 2423 in the British Library collections. At the date when the work appeared in print, the Vetch manuscript was owned and kept private by Schaw...

The British Library also holds MB 'unpublished autobiography, an unfinished fragment in 55 pages.