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Textual Production Rose Macaulay
The essays include prose, verse, and a number of pastiches of other writers. Two about Reading describe the London Library and the British Museum Reading Room . Others describe London literary life, or demonstrate Macaulay's...
Textual Production Emma Parker
EP 's preface says she chose the epistolary form in order to concentrate on character, not incident. OCLC lists a single surviving copy at New York University , bearing a signature which appears to be...
Textual Production Winefrid Thimelby
Some of her manuscript letters are in the British Library as MS Additional 36452.
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg.
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Sanders, Julie. “The Coterie Writing of the Astons and the Thimelbys”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, pp. 47-57.
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Bowden, Caroline, editor. English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800. Pickering and Chatto.
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Textual Production Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
The British Library copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood (prompter at Drury Lane ) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire re-issued her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard at Paris with her own Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland.
Bess's work...
Textual Production Anne Halkett
Part of her manuscript (now British Library Add. MS 32376) had been lost or destroyed before this printing, leaving small gaps here and there, and breaking off in 1656.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 3-7.
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This first scholarly printed text...
Textual Production Sophia King
SK set her birth name to this novel, which she presumably arranged for before her wedding in July. The British Library has a copy, N 2048. SK provides a spirited preface on the part played...
Textual Production Marie de France
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that MF's latest work by date is her collection of 102 Fables in the manner of Aesop , translated into French from the English of someone called Alfred...
Textual Production Harriet Tytler
When HT 's manuscript was acquired by Gerald Sattin a large number of letters and other papers were destroyed. In the view of his son, their editor, the Memoirs were the only important materials to...
Textual Production Josephine Butler
It is listed by the British Library catalogue in JB 's name only, but she had help from the other women. Earlier in the year she had given an address on women's rights and protective...
Textual Production Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Both poems and letters by Frances Hertford survive among the rich deposits at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, the Percy stronghold inherited by her daughter. Some letters are in the British Library , and some...
Textual Production Mary Sewell
MS used this book in the religious training of her children. It was written entirely in one-syllable words. She hoped writing the book would enable her to purchase Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth (and her...
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...
Textual Production Jane Barker
JB 's Exilius, or the Banish'd Roman (a collection of extravagantly heroic
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press.
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tales or romances) was advertised as newly published.
The British Library still (in 2010) lists a copy as probably 1712.
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King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press.
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Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot.
(August 1714)
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
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