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Textual Production Constantia Grierson
A political poem in CG 's volume (untitled, about the willingness of the Anglo-Irish gentry to spend any money to get into the purely figurehead Irish Parliament ) also survives in a copy among Lord Oxford
Textual Production Margery Kempe
This original manuscript is not extant. The text survives only in one copy (slightly damaged by mice or rats) by a third scribe, made around 1450.
Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, edited by Sanford Brown Meech et al., Oxford University Press, p. vii - lii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The involvement of these various hands in the...
Textual Production Harriet Smythies
She was inspired to help the hospital by the fact that she had a daughter with tuberculosis, who died three years after this.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
She dated her prose preface from Belgravia, 23 June 1863.
The...
Textual Production Sarah Williams
Copies survive in the British Library , Cambridge University Library , and the library of the University of Pennsylvania .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Textual Production Rhoda Broughton
After this RB continued regularly to publish further novels: Between Two Stools (1912), Concerning a Vow (1914), and A Thorn in the Flesh (1917), of which OCLC WorldCat lists five copies in North America, though...
Textual Production Frances Isabella Duberly
During her time in CrimeaFID kept a diary (whose manuscript does not survive) and sent regular letters home to her sister Selina (now British Library Additional Manuscripts 47218). She told Selina that writing to...
Textual Production Adelaide O'Keeffe
The British Library holds two of her letters.
Textual Production Annie S. Swan
She spent two years working on this in secret, writing it in a discarded ledger of my father's, which she kept hidden.
Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson.
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It was rejected by several firms before being accepted by the old-established...
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
MJY has been credited with the sentimental, anti-war Horatio and Amanda. A Poem, by a Young Lady, 1777 (second edition 1788). The British Library copy of the first edition has Miss Mary Young written...
Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
She wrote a good deal in 1949 about her love-affair with a German prisoner of war when she was fourteen, two years before this. To 1949 belong several poems about the Soldier of the Cage...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
Both works (mentioned by her daughter-biographer) circulated widely in manuscript copies (particularly in the masculine environment of Oxford University ) and in printed miscellanies. Nadine N. W. Akkerman (who has argued Elizabeth Cary Falkland's probable...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
HP was determined that his manuscripts should not go abroad but remain in the British Library . This duly happened, first on loan and then by purchase.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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At the official handover ceremony in March...
Textual Production Elizabeth Tollet
Her authorship of this volume was first revealed in a note in Roger Lonsdale 's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets in 1989.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
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Three copies are known to survive, at the British Library , Yale University ...
Textual Production Stella Benson
SB 's letter-writing kept her in touch with communities of writers and was a personal lifeline during her isolated years in China. Among her correspondents were Virginia Woolf and Sydney Schiff (Stephen Hudson). Some letters...
Textual Production Lady Anne Clifford
LAC was helped with her literary labours by several scribes, notably one Edward Langley . Of the four copies which she dictated and kept at various of her residences, one survives, corrected by herself: in...

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