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She dedicated the Lais to the King (who may well have been Henry II ). The earliest dated manuscript survives in the British Library as Harleian MS 978; it contains a prologue as well as...

When HT 's manuscript was acquired by Gerald Sattin a large number of letters and other papers were destroyed. In the view of his son, their editor, the Memoirs were the only important materials to...

She wrote a good deal in 1949 about her love-affair with a German prisoner of war when she was fourteen, two years before this. To 1949 belong several poems about the Soldier of the Cage...

Both works (mentioned by her daughter-biographer) circulated widely in manuscript copies (particularly in the masculine environment of Oxford University ) and in printed miscellanies. Nadine N. W. Akkerman (who has argued Elizabeth Cary Falkland's probable...

MS used this book in the religious training of her children. It was written entirely in one-syllable words. She hoped writing the book would enable her to purchase Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth (and her...

MW 's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces.

SB 's letter-writing kept her in touch with communities of writers and was a personal lifeline during her isolated years in China. Among her correspondents were Virginia Woolf and Sydney Schiff (Stephen Hudson). Some letters...

LAC was helped with her literary labours by several scribes, notably one Edward Langley . Of the four copies which she dictated and kept at various of her residences, one survives, corrected by herself: in...

She and Pinter decided to sell their manuscripts to the British Library . In July 1994 they went to pay our manuscripts a visit. They found that while Pinter's were stored in conventional box-files, hers...

The parody To Mr Waller upon his panegirique to the Lord Protector is almost certainly by LH ; the ascription rests on Clarendon 's annotation.

Her fuller title is The Womans Right Or Her Power in a Greater Equality to her Husband proved than is allowed or practised in England from misunderstanding some scriptures, and false rendring others from ye...

It continued weekly until April 1895 (the year Virginia's mother died). Two of its stories (A Cockney's Farming Experiences and The Experiences of a Paterfamilias) were published in the late twentieth century.

The date comes from an advertisement in the Monthly Catalogue, which placed the work among miscellaneous pamphlets, not poetry.EB sold the copyright, plus three hundred remaining copies, at B. Creake 's trade...

The chief collection of MD 's manuscripts is at the Central Library , Newport, Monmouthshire. Her autobiography has unfortunately disappeared, but other papers are in the Portland Collection at the University of Nottingham ...

The essays include prose, verse, and a number of pastiches of other writers. Two about Reading describe the London Library and the British Museum Reading Room . Others describe London literary life, or demonstrate Macaulay's...