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Her title-page uses the pseudonym Eloisa; her letter-writers are Eugenia and Montezella. EB emphasises, however, that she had no help in writing the work; and she published for herself. She intended this as a...

The title is a complex allusion to traditional gender roles, specifically to the sex appeal of male martial prowess. John Dryden 's line None but the brave deserve the fair (itself in context a propaganda...

All five were among the first six volumes in the India Railway Library . Their covers bore illustrations by Kipling's father, Lockwood . All were quickly issued at London. The British Library holds...

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 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...

The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the Minerva Press: The English-Woman, A Novel. Not until a British Library (then the British Museum ) catalogue of 1885 was the...

One more dramatic work was her adaptation of a play by Pierre Loti entitled The Daughter of Heaven. Terence de Vere White says that she was this play's translator as well as its adaptor....

The Dublin reprint, reduced from three volumes to two, is now slightly less rare than the original, with three copies listed in the English Short Title Catalogue (including one in the British Library ) as...

JB 's Exilius, or the Banish'd Roman (a collection of extravagantly heroic tales or romances) was advertised as newly published.

In 1992 EF published a 25-page chapbook containing a selection of Tsvetayeva translations in an edition limited to 250 copies, of which she signed the first fifty.

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...

EU drew her material here from manuscripts in the British Museum (now the British Library ) as well as from old printed books. She aimed at re-introducing to English readers a cycle of old...

The only known copy dated this year is at the University of California at Davis . The British Library 's four copies include the allegedly fourth and sixth editions, and the New York Public Library

This correspondence is just part of a large haul discovered by Horace Walpole in August 1758, lying around disregarded at Ragley Hall, partly rotten and partly gnawed by rats. Walpole rescued the collection and...

In this collaborative book, John Gilbert wrote most of the first 26 pages and AHG the next 18 pages. The Wesleyan missionary William Box also had a hand in the story, which was continued past...