National Archives

She was later a freelance research student at both the Public Record Office and the British Museum .

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...

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

Of these lengthy and detailed lives fourteen were written entirely by Agnes and nineteen by Elizabeth; often a single volume included lives by each sister. Yet the sole authorship of Agnes is assumed in many...

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...

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...

This novel takes a darker view of relationships than most of Pym's earlier works, depicting suburbia as inhabited by misfits and eccentric loners, all struggling, mostly in vain, for affection and happiness. The...

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 ), Woe to the...

Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions (though they were more willing to editorialise than the motto might suggest). They lobbied politicians, pulling every possible string to secure...

The lost and unidentified novel published by Hookham was the first of a series by LMH that appeared without her name. Even Hookham was not let into the secret of her identity until 1792, and...

AB 's intelligence reports from Antwerp are in the Public Record Office , London: their number is SO 29. Todd believes that eight self-revealing and cajoling letters printed in AB 's The...

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...

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...

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...

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...