Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Aphra Behn | AB
's intelligence reports from Antwerp are in the Public Record Office
, London: their number is SO 29. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 454n2 Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 177 |
Literary responses | Anna Eliza Bray | Many readers were convinced that the book contained real loveletters, including an official at the State Paper Office (now the National Archives)
who supposed that AB had performed only minor editing on original archival material... |
Textual Production | Frances Brooke | Harvard University
holds the manuscript of a pastoral, a farce, letters. In 2011 Harvard reported that it had digitized twenty-four letters from her to Richard Gifford
(plus letters from Gifford to Brooke, and songs in... |
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 | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
wrote a Spirituall Antheme, now in the Public Record Office
(State Papers Domestic). Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 73-4 |
Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | They are All the kings of the earth shall prayse thee (the germ of LED
's first published work, of which a single copy survives at the Public Record Office
), Feroli, Teresa, and Lady Eleanor Douglas. “Introduction”. Eleanor Davies, Ashgate, p. ix - xii. xi |
Material Conditions of Writing | Daphne Du Maurier | Before writing the novel, DDM
employed research assistants in London to send her information from the British Museum
and the Public Record Office
s. She studied letters, newspapers, and diaries of the period (Clarke's activities... |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elspeth Huxley | Encouraged by her friendship with Peter Scott
, the explorer's son, EH
spent a whole month, plus additional shorter periods, in research at the Scott Polar Research Institute
at Cambridge, and also visited the... |
Textual Production | Kathleen E. Innes | The following are also useful resources for work on Innes: the Scottish Women's Hospital
records in the Fawcett Library
, the Hampshire Record Office
, the Andover Advertiser (Andover and vicinity newspaper) archives, and the... |
Textual Production | Anne Irwin | AI
wrote letters that were admired. Some, like her travel letters, are lost. Some are in the British Library
. Those to her father, preserved in the Castle Howard archives, have been published by the... |
Textual Features | Barbara Pym | This novel takes a darker view of relationships than most of Pym's earlier works, depicting suburbia as inhabited by misfits and eccentric loners, Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 98 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 98-9 |
Education | Charlotte Stopes | She was later a freelance research student at both the Public Record Office
and the British Museum
. Who Was Who. A. and C. Black. |
Wealth and Poverty | Charlotte Stopes | At one time, says scholar Samuel Schoenbaum
, she applied for daily work, presumably as a char, at the Record Office, but was turned away as they had enough girls. Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare’s Lives. Clarendon Press. 640 Though Schoenbaum presumes that... |
Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 62 |