Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | In 1992 EF
published a 25-page chapbook containing a selection of Tsvetayeva translations in an edition limited to 250 copies, of which she signed the first fifty. This publication, by Menard Press
of London and... |
Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | A Man and Some Women was never published. A typescript is available in the Lord Chamberlain's collection at the British Library
. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Beverley | The only known copy dated this year is at the University of California at Davis
. The British Library
's four copies include the allegedly fourth and sixth editions, and the New York Public Library |
Textual Production | Anne Conway | This correspondence is just part of a large haul discovered by Horace Walpole
in August 1758, lying around disregarded at Ragley Hall, partly rotten and partly gnawed by rats. Walpole rescued the collection and... |
Textual Production | Anne Hart Gilbert | In this collaborative book, John Gilbert
wrote most of the first 26 pages and AHG
the next 18 pages. The Wesleyan missionary William Box
also had a hand in the story, which was continued past... |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | CT
kept journals which survive in the British Library
. She kept her journal in French when writing about an unidentified man with whom she was in love with in the 1740s. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 112 |
Textual Production | Anne Irwin | Pope's poem was two years old, but the Gentleman's Magazine had recently reprinted it. Ashley Cowper
kept a copy of AI
's riposte, attributed to her by name, in his Family Miscellany, British Library |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | Her title-page lists many of the poems contained in the volume. Once again it bears her name and mentions her authorship of a novel, Rose-Mount Castle. An engraved frontispiece, dated 1 March 1801, shows... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | Her title-page uses the pseudonym Eloisa; her letter-writers are Eugenia and Montezella. EB
emphasises, however, that she had no help in writing the work; and she published for herself. She intended this as a... |
Textual Production | Bathsua Makin | The title-page, in Latin, names her father as well as herself, mentions her tender age, and bears epigraphs in Greek and French. The British Library
copy has a note on its final page in the... |
Textual Production | Mary Pix | MP
's comedy The Different Widows; or, Intrigue all-a-Mode, was anonymously published, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury
. The widowed Countess of Salisbury was also celebrated by Anne Finch
. A manuscript note... |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | The title is a complex allusion to traditional gender roles, specifically to the sex appeal of male martial prowess. John Dryden
's line None but the brave deserve the fair (itself in context a propaganda... |
Textual Production | Anna Trapnel | AT
issued a tract entitled either A Voice for the King of Saints and Nations or A Lively Voice for the King of Saints and Nations. The British Library
's copy, apparently a unique... |
Textual Production | Rudyard Kipling | All five were among the first six volumes in the India Railway Library
. Their covers bore illustrations by Kipling's father, Lockwood
. Stewart, James McGregor. Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliographical Catalogue. Editor Yeats, A. W., Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press. 40-67 passim |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Toulmin Smith | Smith provides a thorough summary of the state of librarianship as a profession at the time. She notes that even for men, librarianship is a fledgling profession, so that women seeking to join it may... |
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