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British Library
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | EPW
privately printed the first edition of her poem Flora & Pomona's Fête; or, The Origin of Botanical & Horticultural Meetings. A Poem After the Butterfly's Ball, in order to raise money for the... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Though the printed sheet bears no name, a manuscript note in the British Library
copy identifies it as by EPW
. A copy appears as the final item in the Bodleian Library
's composite volume... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | EPW
published at Lichfield her Fairy Tales in Verse. The title-page of the Bodleian Library
copy (bound into the composite volume mentioned above, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059) says this work was published at... |
Textual Production | John Strange Winter | In over a hundred novels, JSW
addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in... |
Textual Production | Sarah Williams | Copies survive in the British Library
, Cambridge University Library
, and the library of the University of Pennsylvania
. 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. |
Publishing | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | 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... |
Publishing | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | A second edition appeared in 1805 and a fifth in 1807. An undated one from William Darton
, which claims to be the eighth, is dated by the British Library
to around 1830. 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. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Reception | Joan Whitrow | 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... |
Textual Production | Isabella Whitney | The British Library
holds the world's only surviving copy, C. 39 b. 45; again, one cannot tell for certain whether it is a first edition or a re-issue. |
Reception | Dorothy White | 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. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie
, Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie... |
Friends, Associates | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (the future Beatrice Webb) became a friend of Amy Levy
during the 1880s through their shared use of the ladies' lunch room at the British Museum
, where a group developed of young... |
Textual Production | Mary Webb | MW
's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces. The Bodleian Library
holds a copy of this edition (with... |
Publishing | Sarah Waters | Her London University
PhD dissertation, Wolfskins and Togas: lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present, is now digitally available through the British Library
. 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. |
names | Elisabeth Wast | The unexplained tendency of reference sources to call her Elizabeth West instead of Elisabeth Wast (the name printed on the title-page of her book in its first edition) has caused that edition, which is not... |
Timeline
20 October 1940: 10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish...
Writing climate item
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...
Building item
25 October 1997
The Round Reading Room at the British Library
was finally closed.
7 February 2007: First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded...
Women writers item
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,...
Writing climate item
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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