British Library

One reason for her year in London was her need, as a writer, to use the collections at the British Museum (now the British Library).

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...

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...

SSW 's A Visit to London serves to exemplify the difficulty of dating her work (apart from her full-length novels). (It has also been ascribed to Elizabeth Kilner , but the chain of allusive authorship...

The novel was reprinted in volume form in 1880 by J. and R. Maxwell .

The British Library paid over £30,000 for WC 's archive: not only papers, but electronic texts: a server hosting Cope's email correspondence.

An advertisement had promised this novel for 1 June. The title-page quotation is different for each volume. The third and last volume of the British Library set comes from a second edition published...

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.

It was probably published soon afterwards, though the title-page says 1611. Handsome copies of the title-poem without all of its accompanying or supporting poems were given as gifts to Prince Henry (eldest son of James I

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...

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 ..

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...

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.