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Wealth and Poverty | Marjorie Bowen | When she got back to her mother's household in England, Margaret was distressed at the mismanagement of money and frequent lack of food. She was by then sixteen, and keenly felt that she should be... |
Wealth and Poverty | Lady Jane Lumley | Since LJL
was her father's last surviving heir, his collections (including his library and her manuscripts) passed at his death to her widower. In 1609, they passed into the royal collection, and in due course... |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | On her father
's death AOK
applied to the Royal Literary Fund
, which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200. This estimate... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Toulmin Smith | Smith provides a thorough summary of the state of librarianship as a profession at the time. She notes that even for men, librarianship is a fledgling profession, so that women seeking to join it may... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | The British Library
copy is 11633 e. 50. EB
published it with S. Slow
, and dedicated it the fourth Earl of Cardigan
(who had recently succeeded to this title and was later created Duke... |
Textual Production | Shelagh Delaney | Meanwhile, however, in 1963 Nottingham Playhouse
moved to new premises, and its three directors, Peter Ustinov
, John Neville
, and Frank Dunlop
, commissioned from various writers including SDa series of short sketch... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Guest | On 12 April 1836 CG
wrote in her diary, I am iron now. This was a kind of pun: she meant that her life is altered into one of action, not of sentiment... |
Textual Production | Jemima Kindersley | Her name appeared as Mrs. Kindersley. In the copy now in the British Library
someone wrote by her name: Widow of an officer in His Majesty's Army. |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | Her papers are widely scattered. In England the British Library
, the Bodleian Library
, the John Rylands Library
, and Berkshire County Library
hold important material; so do Harvard University Library
and the Huntington Library |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
's papers survive among various collections in the Bodleian
and British Libraries
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Dorothea Du Bois | She dedicated it to Lady Hertford
. A manuscript note on the title-page of the British Library
copy says, containing her own Life and Adventures; Du Bois, Dorothea. Theodora. Printed for the author by C. Kiernan. title-page manuscript note |
Textual Production | Lady Jane Lumley | LJL
's writings survive among manuscripts in the British Library
, with the shelf-marks Royal MS 15 A. i, ii, and ix. |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | MJY
allowed her poem Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches to appear in print attributed only to a Lady. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Baker | The 1930 Players
were a group organized by Inez Bensusan
, an Australian-born actress and playwright who had been instrumental in forming the Actresses' Franchise League
. Penelope Forgives was never published, but a typescript... |
Textual Production | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | In her will ALF
left all works written by herself and her daughters to one of them, Katherine: this suggests a household of women writers, possibly on domestic subjects. In 1651, with her husband away... |
Timeline
By 3 March 1470: Sir Thomas Malory, a political prisoner in...
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By 3 March 1470
Sir Thomas Malory
, a political prisoner in London, most probably in the Tower, finished compiling and writing his collection of legendaryArthurian
romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.
About 1529: The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated...
Building item
About 1529
The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated by Richard Hyrde
from Juan Luis Vives
of Valencia in Spain, was published, after the translator's death.
About the 1530s-1540s: The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library...
Women writers item
About the 1530s-1540s
The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library
Add. 17492) was compiled in large part by women, who edited and probably wrote and transcribed a number of the poems. The title-page of Elizabeth Heale
's edition, 2012...
After July 1553: An unknown person presented to Queen Mary...
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After July 1553
An unknown person presented to Queen Mary Tudor
the finely illuminated manuscript now known as the Queen Mary Psalter (Royal 2 B vii in the British Library
).
Before 1638: William Page, Fellow of All Souls College,...
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Before 1638
William Page
, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
, created a proto-feminist text entitled Womens Worth: A Treatise proveing by sundrie reasons that woemen do excell men.
31 October 1658 : Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Thomas Austen...
Women writers item
31 October 1658
Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Thomas Austen
died. His widow, Katherine
, kept a series of manuscript books containing religious meditations, notes about her life, family records, and poems (mostly religious).
From 1662: The King's Library (now part of the British...
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From 1662
The King's Library (now part of the British Library
) and Cambridge University Library
enjoyed the legal right to a copy of every book published in Britain (a right granted to the Bodleian
on 11...
By 6 April 1742: An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess...
Women writers item
By 6 April 1742
An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, a politicalapologia and attack on her enemies composed by her over almost forty years with various helpers, appeared a few weeks after Prime Minister...
15 January 1759: The British Museum (including what had formerly...
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15 January 1759
The British Museum
(including what had formerly been known as the King's Library
), established six years earlier, was first opened to the public.
1798-1800: August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel...
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1798-1800
August Wilhelm
and Friedrich von Schlegel
published their periodicalDas Athenäum, the manifesto of the German Romantic movement.
1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
Women writers item
1838
Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria
's Scottish ancestry.
1867: The library of books by women collected by...
Women writers item
1867
The library of books by women collected by the Rev. Francis John Stainforth
was sold at Sotheby
's and the greater part of it acquired for the British Museum (that part of it which is...
1881: A religious novel published this year with...
Women writers item
1881
A religiousnovel published this year with 1882 on its title-page, Nellie; or Seeking Goodly Pearls by Mrs Meredith, has been wrongly ascribed to Louisa Anne Meredith
, but is actually by the Evangelical Christian Susanna Meredith
.
31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...
National or international item
31 October 1910
Frances Olive Underhill
, a graduate of Royal Holloway College
, was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson
Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian
: the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...
1939: Peig Sayers published in Ireland her Machtnamh...
Women writers item
1939
Peig Sayers
published in Ireland her Machtnamh seana-mhná (whose title is here transliterated from Irish script, as it is in the British Library
catalogue).
Texts
Austen-Leigh, William, and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh. Jane Austen: A Family Record. Editor Le Faye, Deirdre, British Library, 1989.
Bell, Quentin, and Virginia Woolf. The Charleston Bulletin Supplements. Editor Olk, Claudia, British Library, 2013.
Forster, Antonia. Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800. British Library, 1997.
Marson, Una. At What a Price. British Library, 1932.