British Library

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).

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...

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 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

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...

She brought this account of her life up to her husband's death. The original of this first book is not known to be extant, but a copy made by one of her descendants survives, identified...

She had written the first draft of this story about 1802, when she felt herself to be blindly seeking religion, and her journal was recording dark cries for help. The British Library has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness. Her two...

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...

It went through two more London editions this year, and eight by 1789. Each copy of the first four editions ends with SLP 's printed signature or manual sign, S. Pennington (as can be...

This reached a fourth edition in 1814; a copy of one edition in the British Library contains manuscript notes. This was just one of a number of collections (for instance, The Prophecies of Joanna Southcott...