British Library

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...

A prolific poet throughout her career, LOC also wrote songs and composed music for them. The British Library attributes the following (along with a number of other poetic and musical works) to Chant in its...

In her will ALF left all works written by herself and her daughters to one of them, Katherine: this suggests a household of women writers, possibly on domestic subjects. In 1651, with her husband away...

A complete edition of her surviving Letters appeared between 1997 and 2004, edited by Antony H. Harrison . Harrison notes that few letters to her mother or sister exist since she was in the habit...

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

CY anonymously published her first novel, Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit.

CT must have written this by 1754, when George Berkeley transcribed it with notes on making use of it for his sermons. His copy (now British Library Additional MS 46689) is titled Meditations. It...

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...

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...

The British Library copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood (prompter at Drury Lane ) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again...

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...

Meanwhile, however, in 1963 Nottingham Playhouse moved to new premises, and its three directors, Peter Ustinov , John Neville , and Frank Dunlop , commissioned from various writers including SDa series of short sketch...