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The fully indexed text received a second edition in 1898 with drawings by MES .Arabella Shore willed the volumes to the British Museum (now the British Library ), but her will was never...

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...

She dedicated it to her doctor brother John , saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad—that is, to appear in print before the public. She said it was...

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...

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 ..

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...

This reached a fourth edition in 1814; a copy of one edition in the British Library contains manuscript notes. This was just one of a number of collections (for instance, The Prophecies of Joanna Southcott...

At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed...

For years the British Museum (that part which is now the British Library ) shelved its copy of this poem in the suppressed safe of works so scandalous they had to be read under...

Mrs. Molesworth made herself a household name early in her career, and remained one for over a generation whenever books for children were discussed or memoirists recalled their early reading. On her death the obituary...

In January 2011 the Richard and Judy Book Club listed Small Island as one of the 100 Books of the Decade. The manuscript of it was exhibited at the British Library as part...

AG 's popularly best-known poem today (though it is known without her name) must be Oh where, tell me where, is your Highland Laddie gone?. The British Library catalogue lists under Grant's name a...

The first printing of DO letters in 1836 was well reviewed by Macaulay two years after it appeared. One recent literary-critical analysis is that of James Fitzmaurice and Martine Rey , Letters by Women in...

In winter 2017-18 a British Library exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, demonstrated how JKR mined old, esoteric texts, and how she worked at planning and structuring the novels.

In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez (who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time ....