British Library

She claimed in 2004 to have in her house a whole trunkful of literary manuscripts which she had tried unsuccessfully to sell. Two girls from the British Library took a look and promised to send...

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...

Typescripts of EB 's unpublished plays can be found in the Lord Chamberlain's collection at the British Library and the Theatre Museum study room in London.

This issue was a continuing interest of Barbauld's. She had contributed five hymns, anonymously, to William Enfield 's Hymns for Public Worship (published at Warrington in 1772), and had made manuscript notes in the...

JB 's Exilius, or the Banish'd Roman (a collection of extravagantly heroic tales or romances) was advertised as newly published.

Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library and at Magdalen College , Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar

Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...

The dedication is signed Maria Barrell, though the title-page renders this in at least some copies as Maria Arrell. Scholar Janet Todd notes that MB focused on the issue of imprisonment for debtors and...

After the queen's accession, MB presented her with a splendid manuscript copy in a velvet binding, which is now in the British Library : Harleian MS 1860, bearing the title of A Paper-Book in small...

Two manuscripts of it survive. British Library MS Egerton 2414 is probably AB 's original: neatly penned though eccentrically spelt and punctuated, untitled, and filling every scrap of every page, without paragraph breaks. The other...

Fittingly, perhaps, SB 's last two texts were an English prose piece and a French poem: Stirrings Still, 1988, and Comment dire (What is the Word, written in hospital while recovering from...

PB gave a lecture at the British Library under the auspices of the Centre for the Book , which was published the next year as The Truth of Imagination.

The title continues: Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century.EOB researched this book in the British Museum Library , where Samuel Carter Hall thought...

It bore a quotation from Montaigne on the title-page. AMB says the errors in her text sprang from its having been written far from home (in Edinburgh), in the greatest Distress, both of Mind...

SB 's letter-writing kept her in touch with communities of writers and was a personal lifeline during her isolated years in China. Among her correspondents were Virginia Woolf and Sydney Schiff (Stephen Hudson). Some letters...