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Textual Production | Elizabeth Warren | Its fuller title is The Old and Good Way Vindicated: In a Treatise, Wherein Divers Errours, (Both in Judgement and Practice, Incident to These Declining Times) are Unmasked, for the Caution of Humble Christians... |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | The British Library
copy is 11631 c. 2. |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | This rare little work, held by the Université Laval
and the University of Alberta
Library (courtesy of the constituent Collège Saint-Jean
), is not listed in the catalogues of the British Library
, Bodleian Library |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | Some of her hymns in this volume were later incorporated into Anglican collections. The British Library
has a copy of this work with manuscript notes. |
Textual Production | Laura Ormiston Chant | 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... |
Textual Production | Ann Lady Fanshawe | 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... |
Textual Production | Georgette Heyer | The British Library
holds her correspondence with the Society of Authors
, and Duke University
her mass of literary notes and drafts. |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
began a diary which she kept until 11 March 1823; it is now in the British Library
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 201 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | CY
anonymously published her first novel, Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18 lists only the reprint of 1848. Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983. 18: 308 Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943. 58 |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke | She went on working at them later, developing her skills as she went on, and doing a great deal of revision. Her critic Gary F. Waller
believes that she kept two working drafts simultaneously in... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | 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... |
Textual Production | Shelagh Delaney | 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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | EPW
privately printed the first edition of her poem Flora & Pomona's Fête; or, The Origin of Botanical & Horticultural Meetings. A Poem After the Butterfly's Ball, in order to raise money for the... |
Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | It ran for only nineteen performances. Fitzsimmons, Linda. “Githa Sowerby (1876-1970)”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 135-7. 136 Compton, Fay. Rosemary: Some Remembrances. Alston Rivers, 1926. 157 |
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