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Textual Production Amelia Opie
AO was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs or her husband; a few are from her...
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
FK 's papers are at the New York Public Library , the Harvard College Library, Butler Library at Columbia University , Boston Public Library , the British Library , and the Victoria and Albert Museum .
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research.
181
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley , it seems that CT wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
117
She, or more probably Elizabeth Carter acting after her...
Textual Production Harriet Downing
On 27 December 1838, Dickens wrote to HD about an unidentified (and possibly unpublished) piece he called the unfortunate Hen.
Dickens, Charles. The Letters of Charles Dickens. Editors House, Madeline and Graham Storey, Clarendon Press.
1: 476, 476n2
He addressed her as Sir and begged H. Downing Esquire not...
Textual Production Bathsua Makin
It was dedicated to Queen Anne , wife of James I (who died on 2 March this year). It seems that this was to be printed as a pamphlet; one sample sheet survives in a...
Textual Production Mary Pix
It was published the same year.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
2: 93
The British Library copy (841 e. 6) bears a contemporary note of MP 's name. The prologue (probably by Congreve , though given anonymously)
McKenzie, Donald Francis. “A New Congreve Literary Autograph”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xv
, No. 4, pp. 292-9.
297
implies that...
Textual Production Anne Bacon
Searches have turned up numbers of AB 's papers, surviving in the British Library and among her son Anthony's papers at Lambeth Palace in London.
Martin, Julian. Conversations about Anne Bacon with Isobel Grundy.
AB 's writings are available in facsimile in the...
Textual Production Ephelia
The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate. The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
Textual Production Mary Masters
The Bodleian Library has some letters of MM 's: MS Eng. Letters d. 45; others are in North Yorkshire Record Office, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , and in the British Library .
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Masters.
Oddly, both...
Textual Production Frances Sarah Hoey
Her letters to Edmund Downey survive in the National Library of Ireland , while correspondence between her and her publishers is in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Janet Schaw
The first copy uncovered by scholars is now Egerton MS 2423 in the British Library collections. At the date when the work appeared in print, the Vetch manuscript was owned and kept private by Schaw...
Textual Production Elizabeth Warren
Its fuller title is The Old and Good Way Vindicated: In a Treatise, Wherein Divers Errours, (Both in Judgement and Practice, Incident to These Declining Times) are Unmasked, for the Caution of Humble Christians...
Textual Production Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Some of her letters remain in the British Library and the Bodleian Library .
Textual Production Alethea Lewis
The subscribers included George Crabbe and his wife , and Mary Meeke (who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale ...
Textual Production Mary Fortune
These stories had appeared in the Journal between 1870 and 1871. The volume was printed in Melbourne by the publishers of The Australian Journal in what seems to have been a small run; OCLC lists...

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