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Textual Production Florence Nightingale
While travelling to and through Egypt, FN kept a diary. It was thought until recently that only one diary survived from this trip, the one covering the period 1 January-15 July 1850, held at...
Textual Production Marie Stopes
Many of MS 's papers can be found in London, at the British Library and the Wellcome Institute .
Textual Production Frances Wright
The play was published the same year by Matthew Carey at Philadelphia. A London edition followed in 1822. The British Library holds copies of each edition containing manuscript notes.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Enid Blyton
The first number appeared of Enid Blyton's Magazine, the month after the end of her previous periodical for children, Sunny Stories.
Her biographer Barbara Stoney gives the title as Enid Blyton Magazine...
Textual Production Frances Cornford
Cornford's papers are kept at the British Library .
Dowson, Jane et al. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xiii - xxv.
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Some of her letters have been published in Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound, an edition of the works of her son John Cornford .
Textual Production Elizabeth Joscelin
EJ seems to have begun writing when she felt herself quick with child (or first felt the foetus moving inside her); this was also when she ordered her winding-sheet or shroud. Unequivocally, it seems, her...
Textual Production Angela Thirkell
The British Library holds the manuscript of Miss Bunting.
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
Another of MMS 's books of this kind was The History of Henry Milner, a little boy, who was not brought up according to the fashions of this world, whose hero is based on...
Textual Production Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
The present BL Egerton MS 607 was at one time owned by the author's descendant Samuel Egerton Brydges . Two contemporary copies of this manuscript, one of them with extensive and important annotation by the...
Textual Production Sarah Dixon
McMaster University has a copy of SD 's Poems on Several Occasions which contains contemporary manuscript notes, and an extra unpublished poem (on the familiar topic of an abandoned shepherdess) written on pages laid into...
Textual Production Catherine Marsh
This text is not listed by OCLC or by the British Library catalogue, but the Bodleian Library has a copy.
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Textual Production Evelyn Underhill
In 1912 EU prepared an edition of The Cloud of Unknowing with an introduction tracing its history from its beginnings in the sixth century through its first translation into English, in the fourteenth century. Her...
Textual Production Maria Callcott
This appeared as printed for the author. MC says her frontispiece, sketched in 1834, was to be her very last attempt at holding a pencil.
Callcott, Maria. A Description of the Chapel of the Annunziata dell’Arena. Printed for the author by T. Brettell.
prelims
Most of the lavish illustrations were by her...
Textual Production Elizabeth Elstob
These 36 pages in folio, printed at Oxford University Press , survive in the British Library . This fragment, like the sample single homily, has parallel texts: the original Anglo-Saxon and EE 's modern English.The...
Textual Production Rose Hickman
The British Library has three copies of her work, but none is her original. The earliest, most likely made by her son William Hickman around the date of her death, is bound up with an...

Timeline

20 October 1940: 10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish...

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20 October 1940

10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish newspapers held by the British Museum were destroyed and a further 15,000 were damaged by bombing at Colindale north of London.

25 October 1997: The Round Reading Room at the British Library...

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25 October 1997

The Round Reading Room at the British Library was finally closed.

7 February 2007: First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded...

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7 February 2007

First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year prize (worth £25,000) for her novelThe Tenderness of Wolves.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

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