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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...

She published it with Longman , bearing her name. It was one of several tributes to this statesman, who died aged thirty-six and, as AO put it, distinguished by a nation's praise.

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 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...

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...

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 .

JS is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and in 1997 she held the position of Penguin Writers Fellow at the British Library . She was made a CBE (Commander of the...

The poet Pope was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for...

A note in the British Library copy records (with some confusion about dates) that someone nailed this to the church door at Wickhamford in Worcestershire, during the Christmas season.

The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .

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...