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She worked regularly in the British Museum (on those resources which are now devolved to the British Library ).

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...

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...

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...

This novel had two issues and a French translation in 1801. Carol Stewart edited it, together with Life's Progress through the Passions, 1748, for the Chawton House Library Series in 2013. The Chawton House Library

They appeared as by Mrs C. Mathews, the form of her name preferred for her title-pages by her husband. Lessons of Truth (full title of first edition Lessons of Truth: containing The Rose; or...

Both the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the British Library in London have important manuscripts of works by Christine de Pisan , many of them beautifully illuminated. Those at the British Library, including the Queen's...

The British Library copy of The Unequal Conflict is fashionably bound, like that of The Rash Resolve, in red leather with gold-tooled Harleian borders, marbled endpapers, and a decorated, embossed spine. The unique copy...

ADA 's Oxford university satire Academia had a new, anonymous edition (the original owner of the British Library 's copy recorded the full date on the title-page).

The fully indexed text received a second edition in 1898 with drawings by MES .Arabella Shore willed the volumes to the British Museum (now the British Library ), but her will was never...

It bore a quotation from Montaigne on the title-page. AMB says the errors in her text sprang from its having been written far from home (in Edinburgh), in the greatest Distress, both of Mind...

This had five London and two Dublin editions and a German translation (which itself had six editions).Carol Stewart produced a scholarly facsimile edition for the Chawton House Library Series in 2014, basing her...

The poem was part-finished at the beginning of the year. Like Holford's previous book it is dedicated to her mother , from whom, she writes, she imbibed and inherited the taste which...

She published it with Longman , bearing her name. It was one of several tributes to this statesman, who died aged thirty-six and, as AO put it, distinguished by a nation's praise.