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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 Mary Leadbeater
The volume features a frontispiece (missing from the British Library copy).
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 401
As well as didactic tales, it includes a play, Honesty is the Best Policy.
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 Anne Locke
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...
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...
Publishing Mary Martha Sherwood
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.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
222-3
The British Library has...
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 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 Mary Chandler
She dedicated it to her doctor brother John , saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.
36
that is, to appear in print before the public. She said it was...
Publishing Ann Lady Fanshawe
This edition included valuable biographical material, but was surpassed by that of John Loftis for Oxford University Press , 1979, which for the first time accurately reproduces the text of the British Library manuscript. It...
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 Maria Edgeworth
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.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
287
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...

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