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LMS also contributed to a collection issued by the Royal Society of Literature in 1931: Essays by Divers Hands (edited by Sir Francis Younghusband ). She wrote the forewords to Lorna Keeling Connard's part-verse...

CB 's stay in Brussels (as well as contributing eventually to Villette) produced a number of French exercises or devoirs, plus her subsequent letters to Constantin Heger . Four of the letters (of which...

She dedicated the Lais to the King (who may well have been Henry II ). The earliest dated manuscript survives in the British Library as Harleian MS 978; it contains a prologue as well as...

JH dated her preface 12 February 1806. A former owner of what is now the Bodleian Library copy, who lived at Tynemouth Vicarage, wrote their name in the novel in 1936. The Chawton House Library

PL began to fill the first of his surviving poetry notebooks. He continued to use it until March 1950, and in 1965 he presented it to the British Library .

This appeared as printed for the author. MC says her frontispiece, sketched in 1834, was to be her very last attempt at holding a pencil. Most of the lavish illustrations were by her...

ML 's The Pedlars, A Tale, written for the Kildare Place Society , seems to have been published not long before her death. Though it is unlisted in OCLC WorldCat, the British Library

These 36 pages in folio, printed at Oxford University Press , survive in the British Library . This fragment, like the sample single homily, has parallel texts: the original Anglo-Saxon and EE 's modern English.The...

A book published in 1865 entitled The Lacemakers, Sketches of Irish Character has been wrongly attributed to LAM .

The British Library has three copies of her work, but none is her original. The earliest, most likely made by her son William Hickman around the date of her death, is bound up with an...

Literary historian Ann B. Shteir thinks AS may be the author of The Backwardness of the Spring Accounted For, a poem written into a copy of Linnaeus 's A System of Vegetables, 1783...

The two writers' vast journal, kept over many years, was not originally intended for publication but soon developed into a more self-consciously produced collaborative text by MF . Excerpts were published by T. Sturge Moore

HM was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay

SH published a signed broadside, A Word of Advice and Warning to Handicrafts-men, Labourers, Carmen, Coachmen, Chairmen, &c.

Braintree is only about six miles from Steele's home, Rivenhall Place, and she later published her play, too, locally. This text is not in the Bodleian or Cambridge University Library and not listed by...