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Textual Production Mary Masters
The Bodleian Library has some letters of MM 's: MS Eng. Letters d. 45; others are in North Yorkshire Record Office, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , and in the British Library .
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Masters.
Oddly, both...
Textual Production Janet Schaw
The first copy uncovered by scholars is now Egerton MS 2423 in the British Library collections. At the date when the work appeared in print, the Vetch manuscript was owned and kept private by Schaw...
Textual Production Elizabeth Burnet
EB 's papers survive among various collections in the Bodleian and British Libraries .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Elizabeth Warren
Its fuller title is The Old and Good Way Vindicated: In a Treatise, Wherein Divers Errours, (Both in Judgement and Practice, Incident to These Declining Times) are Unmasked, for the Caution of Humble Christians...
Textual Production Dorothea Du Bois
She dedicated it to Lady Hertford . A manuscript note on the title-page of the British Library copy says, containing her own Life and Adventures;
Du Bois, Dorothea. Theodora. Printed for the author by C. Kiernan.
title-page manuscript note
on the verso the same hand...
Textual Production Alethea Lewis
The subscribers included George Crabbe and his wife , and Mary Meeke (who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale ...
Textual Production Edith Mary Moore
EMM , calling herself by only part of her name, Mary Moore, appears to have published The Defeat of Woman, an 87-page non-fictional treatise on women and society.
Dated from the British Library acquisition stamp.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Elizabeth Baker
The 1930 Players were a group organized by Inez Bensusan , an Australian-born actress and playwright who had been instrumental in forming the Actresses' Franchise League . Penelope Forgives was never published, but a typescript...
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
It ran for only nineteen performances.
Fitzsimmons, Linda. “Githa Sowerby (1876-1970)”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, pp. 135-7.
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Compton explained that the daylight air raids, which began soon after the play's opening, discouraged theatre audiences from attending public events.
Compton, Fay. Rosemary: Some Remembrances. Alston Rivers.
157
The play was never published, but...
Textual Production Ann, Lady Fanshawe
In her will ALF left all works written by herself and her daughters to one of them, Katherine: this suggests a household of women writers, possibly on domestic subjects. In 1651, with her husband away...
Textual Production Catherine Holland
Historian Dorothy L. Latz prints or discusses several of CH 's religious works. A Method to Converse with God, a translation, survives as British Library Harleian MS 3184; Latz suspects CH may have written...
Textual Production Edith Lyttelton
The Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College , Cambridge, hold EL 's unpublished memoirs and correspondence from 1888 to 1945. The British Library also holds some of her letters, including correspondence with the League of Dramatists
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT must have written this by 1754, when George Berkeley transcribed it with notes on making use of it for his sermons. His copy (now British Library Additional MS 46689) is titled Meditations. It...
Textual Production Bathsua Makin
The Bodleian Library holds poems by BM (not indexed under M); the British Library has a copy of Musa Virginea with a note on the final page in her writing. The Huntington Library has her...
Textual Production Catharine Trotter
CT contributed Calliope: The Heroick Muse to The Nine Muses, Manley 's collection of elegies by women on Dryden 's death, published by 26 September 1700.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press.
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A different poem by her, On the...

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