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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.
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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
All were quickly issued at London. The British Library holds...
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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