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One manuscript note in the British Library copy ascribes this to Eliza Coltman (which could mean either EH , called by her birth name, or her mother ), while another note re-ascribes it to Mr...

A book published in 1865 entitled The Lacemakers, Sketches of Irish Character has been wrongly attributed to LAM .

Literary historian Ann B. Shteir thinks AS may be the author of The Backwardness of the Spring Accounted For, a poem written into a copy of Linnaeus 's A System of Vegetables, 1783...

Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...

HMC 's surviving letters span the years both before and after her marriage. Apart from her best-known letters, exchanged with Richardson himself, Richardson's circle, and other Bluestockings of the original generation, she corresponded with Frances Burney

EF 's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to...

HM was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay

Braintree is only about six miles from Steele's home, Rivenhall Place, and she later published her play, too, locally. This text is not in the Bodleian or Cambridge University Library and not listed by...

Some of MB 's letters survive in the British Library .

She identified herself on the title-page as the Authoress of the Exemplary Mother, and used Dodsley , her usual publisher. She dedicated her novel in its new form to Letitia, Lady Beauchamp-Proctor (wife of the...

The British Library , however, has three copies.

There is no extensive collection of manuscripts by CM , but letters by her are held in various libraries in the USA: the Rhode Island Historical Society , the Boston Public Library , the...

This book appeared, like her next, as by a Lady; the British Library copy (filmed for Eighteenth Century Collections Online) has a manuscript note identifying the author on the printed testimony of Erasmus...

The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still. The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...

LMS also contributed to a collection issued by the Royal Society of Literature in 1931: Essays by Divers Hands (edited by Sir Francis Younghusband ). She wrote the forewords to Lorna Keeling Connard's part-verse...