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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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Beginning in the 1990s Arrow Booksbeautifully repackaged and reissued almost sixty of...
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
The British Library has the second edition but not the first.
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 explained that the daylight air raids, which began soon after the play's opening, discouraged theatre audiences from attending public events.
Compton, Fay. Rosemary: Some Remembrances. Alston Rivers, 1926.
157
The play was never published, but...

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