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From the time of her marriage Lady CG took a keen interest in Welsh culture. When attention to her first baby left her short of leisure time, her Welsh studies took priority while Persian lapsed...

ES published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking...

MR wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz to put her name on some of...

Between them, Mary Howitt and her husband William wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum printed catalogue. Bearing the expenses of a...

MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...

JS 's final poetry volume, A Pocketful of Pebbles, published in New York by Harcourt Brace , is not held by either the British Library or the Bodleian Library ..

A second edition appeared in 1805 and a fifth in 1807. An undated one from William Darton , which claims to be the eighth, is dated by the British Library to around 1830.

Again the London edition (by Stanley Paul and Co. ) was accompanied by a Tauchnitz edition, of which the British Library copy is bound with the publisher's list and catalogue, and with two pages of...

After the queen's accession, MB presented her with a splendid manuscript copy in a velvet binding, which is now in the British Library : Harleian MS 1860, bearing the title of A Paper-Book in small...

Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster...

Bridges had already been trying the water by introducing a few individual Hopkins poems into anthologies. Only 750 copies of this edition were printed. The British Library copy contains manuscript notes by C. H. Wilkinson

Again she wrote at Rungstedlund, first in English and then in Danish. She had her English manuscript conveyed in the diplomatic pouch of Sweden (a neutral country) to Random House in New York...

Her husband, already a regular contributor, illustrated some of the children's poems and stories she published there under the pseudonym of Gilbert Percy (made up of the names of her sons). These were collected in...

MA 's graphic short story Freeforall, adaptation and art by Christian Ward , appeared in the Guardian newspaper in connection with the British Library exhibition Comics Unmasked.

A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...