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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.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
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
on the verso the same hand...
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.
OCLC WorldCat dates all its listings of this work, including the British Library copy, 1791...
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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.