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Author summary Margaret Roberts
MR wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz to put her name on some of...
Author summary Elizabeth Strickland
ES published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking...
Author summary Mary Howitt
Between them, Mary Howitt and her husband William wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum printed catalogue.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
1, 261
Bearing the expenses of a...
Publishing Melesina Trench
MT continued to publish small volumes of poetry during the next few years. Laura's Dream; or, The Moonlanders (seen in the twenty-first century as belonging to the category of science fiction) appeared at London in...
Publishing Aemilia Lanyer
It was probably published soon afterwards, though the title-page says 1611. Handsome copies of the title-poem without all of its accompanying or supporting poems were given as gifts to Prince Henry (eldest son of James I
Publishing Margaret Atwood
MA 's graphic short story Freeforall, adaptation and art by Christian Ward , appeared in the Guardian newspaper in connection with the British Library exhibition Comics Unmasked.
Atwood, Margaret, and Christian Ward. “Freeforall”. The Guardian, pp. 59-63.
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The Minerva Press edition of 1801, not listed in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in a few copies (one of which is in the University of Alberta library at Edmonton. An...
Publishing Samuel Beckett
Fittingly, perhaps, SB 's last two texts were an English prose piece and a French poem: Stirrings Still, 1988, and Comment dire (What is the Word, written in hospital while recovering from...
Publishing Georgiana Chatterton
Many of GC 's last works were privately printed. According to the original Dictionary of National Biography, she first used this means of publication for Quagmire Ahead, 1864, then for A Plea for...
Publishing Edith Mary Moore
Her full name (Edith Mary Croucher Moore) appears in connection with this book in OCLC WorldCat though not on its title-page. Cassell advertised it in the TLS repeatedly until early June,
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(14 January 1909): 11; (3 June 1909): 205; (10 June 1909): 213
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The first edition, unlisted in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in the Bodleian Library . Miami University holds a second edition published in 1803 at York, with illustrations from Thomas Bewick
Publishing Sophia Hume
The British Library copy ends with an advertisement that mentions both SH 's Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina and her Caution to Such as Observe Days and Times—which raises questions about dating.
Publishing Edith Mary Moore
Again Cassell placed advertisements in the TLS, but only for a couple of weeks this time.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(21 October 1909): 389
OCLC WorldCat lists (in 2010) just two copies: in the British Library and the...
Publishing Catharine Trotter
The fuller title was The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical. Several of them now first printed. Many of the bluestocking circle subscribed. Two British Library copies have different versions...
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
They appeared as by Mrs C. Mathews, the form of her name preferred for her title-pages by her husband. Lessons of Truth (full title of first edition Lessons of Truth: containing The Rose; or...

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