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Textual Production Jane Austen
Volume the Third was bought by the British Library . The incomplete manuscript of The Watsons was bought at this sale by a private buyer who placed it on deposit at Queen Mary and Westfield College
Textual Production Maria Callcott
Some of MC 's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library . A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her...
Textual Production Elizabeth Elstob
The British Library holds some of EE 's papers. Her manuscripts among the Ballard Collection in the Bodleian Library include this biography, her notes for female biography, a short autobiography written in the third person...
Textual Production Margaret Hoby
She almost certainly kept it for religious reasons. The period covered is one of generally uneventful life in the country, at Hackness in North Yorkshire, with occasional visits to London. Parts of the...
Textual Production Andrea Levy
In 2018 Back to my Own Country was featured as one of the British Library 's Windrush Stories, marking the seventieth anniversary of the docking of the Empire Windrush, one of the first ships...
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
Her papers are held at the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada . Letters to her publisher Richard Bentley are available in the British Library .
Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada.
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
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 Charlotte Forman
These letters are now in the British Library among Add. MS 30869-30871. One of them was printed by John Almon in his edition of Wilkes's Correspondence, 1805.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
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During these years she sent Wilkes...
Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...
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 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 Sarah Green
The literary-critical preface, unusually for such a satirical work, bears her intials. Green says she has reasons for concealing her name, but will affix the REAL initials of that name to this advertisement. ....
Textual Production Mary Ann Kelty
This novel is rare (not listed in OCLC WorldCat) though the British Library has two copies.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
The similarity of the heroine's name to that of Eliza Rivers in MAK 's first novel suggests some...
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...

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