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ME intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.

The volume features a frontispiece (missing from the British Library copy). As well as didactic tales, it includes a play, Honesty is the Best Policy.

While in exile in Geneva, AL had worked on this rendering of modern and revolutionary material. She had only recently returned to London when her work was recorded in the Stationers' Register . Chapter...

The title-page listed the names of all Miss Byron's previous novels (but not Celia in Search of a Husband). The new work was a sequel to English-Woman (of which a second edition was...

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

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 .

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

She received £63 for the copyright; 1,250 copies were printed. The portrait in the British Library copy is an insertion, although the English Short Title Catalogue mentions it as integral to the edition.

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...