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Publishing Eliza Haywood
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.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
135-9
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The Chawton House Library
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
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...
Publishing A. Woodfin
There was a second edition in 1770, which is held by the British Library .
Publishing Elizabeth Isabella Spence
The British Library copy numbered C45 i.5(3) is bound in red velvet which is said to have been used at the funeral of the real-life original of the second story's heroine.
Publishing Sarah Waters
Her London University PhD dissertation, Wolfskins and Togas: lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present, is now digitally available through the British Library .
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Publishing Angela Carter
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.
Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 69-77.
72
Her two...
Publishing Eliza Haywood
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...
Publishing A. Woodfin
With this work AW changed publishers, from Noble to Lowndes . The English Short Title Catalogue does not (2007) list this work under her name, either for this edition or the reprint of 1770; nor...
Publishing Frances Browne
Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...
Publishing Elisabeth Wast
The title is the same one given to the posthumous memoirs of Catharine Colace Ross , published eleven years later. The National Library of Scotland holds a copy of this edition, of which most standard...
Publishing Eliza Haywood
This had five London and two Dublin editions and a German translation (which itself had six editions).
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
581-95
Bernard, Stephen. “Rediscovered secrets”. Times Literary Supplement, 14 Nov. 2014, p. 25.
Carol Stewart produced a scholarly facsimile edition for the Chawton House Library Series in 2014, basing her...
Publishing Margaret Holford
The poem was part-finished at the beginning of the year.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 545, 546
Like Holford's previous book it is dedicated to her mother , from whom, she writes, she imbibed and inherited the taste which...
Publishing Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
EPW published at Lichfield her Fairy Tales in Verse.
The title-page of the Bodleian Library copy (bound into the composite volume mentioned above, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059) says this work was published at...
Publishing Amelia Opie
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 36 (1802): 476
Publishing Margaret Cavendish
She had begun work on this book before leaving for England in November 1651.
Grant, Douglas. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.
108, 140
This was the first of her books to have a portrait frontispiece.
Grant, Douglas. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.
142
The British Library holds two copies...

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