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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 Dorothea Gerard
Again the London edition (by Stanley Paul and Co. ) was accompanied by a Tauchnitz edition, of which the British Library copy is bound with the publisher's list and catalogue, and with two pages of...
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...
Publishing Catharine Trotter
The fuller title was The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical. Several of them now first printed. Many of the bluestocking circle subscribed. Two British Library copies have different versions...
Publishing Margaret Roper
Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster...
Publishing Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bridges had already been trying the water by introducing a few individual Hopkins poems into anthologies. Only 750 copies of this edition were printed. The British Library copy contains manuscript notes by C. H. Wilkinson
Publishing Elizabeth Boyd
The British Library copy, anonymous, with six printers' names listed on its title-page, is 1489 m. 14. The title-page of a re-issue, probably with cancelled title-page (copies at Leeds and Indiana University Libraries) gives EB
Publishing Shelagh Delaney
SD decided to submit her script to Joan Littlewood after reading a newspaper report about a conflict between Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and the Lord Chamberlain. Her script was accepted immediately by Theatre Workshop
“Meeting Shelagh Delaney”. Times, 2 Feb. 1959, p. 12.
12
but...
Publishing Katharine S. Macquoid
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...
Publishing Mary Robinson
She received £63 for the copyright; 1,250 copies were printed.
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
17
, 1987, pp. 191-07.
204n19
The portrait in the British Library copy is an insertion, although the English Short Title Catalogue mentions it as integral to the edition.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
87
Publishing Elizabeth Beverley
The British Library holds two copies printed in 1818, allegedly the fifth and seventh editions.
Publishing Clara Codd
CC was a prolific writer on her faith. Between 1917 and 1947, she published a number of books and pamphlets: Looking Forward: The Coming Faith and the Coming Social Order (1918), On Lecturing and Lecture...
Publishing Sarah Lady Pennington
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...
Publishing Susanna Hopton
George Hickes believed this work to be by SH . He also noted that a section added to it in 1688 in a form then titled The Sacrifice of a devout Christian was identified by...
Publishing Melesina Trench
MT continued to publish small volumes of poetry during the next few years. Laura's Dream; or, The Moonlanders (seen in the twenty-first century as belonging to the category of science fiction) appeared at London in...

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