Bodleian Library

The Critical Review thought this the first of AMB 's novels to achieve excellence. This time, it said, the intricate story was well woven (at least in the first two volumes) and the plot and...

Many of them flag through their titles the fact that their pivotal roles belong to women, in a way that suggests they were intended for a mostly female audience. Such titles include two which look...

Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University .

This is a kind of specialised visitors' book. Its pages are forms to be filled in by the owner's friends, giving name and address, where and when they met the owner, and under the heading...

It was his first three-act play. Like Riders to the Sea, it drew its inspiration from the folklore of the Aran Islands. It was published at the end of the same year, in...

The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. The body...

She does not argue an inherent right in all women to speak, but the right of selected women in specific circumstances to do so. In Old and New Testament equally, she says, it is evident...

LEB and Sarah Ponsonby wrote some of their voluminous correspondence jointly. Writing was one of their major pleasures; they selected paper with loving care, and kept an equally careful tally of replies received and of...

The Bodleian copy (shelf-mark 8vo Z 150 Art. B.S.) of the second London edition of volume one (1749) has Isaac Reed 's annotation and paste-in.

EBCJ followed her own single poetry publication with Songs for Sale (a slim anthology of poems by her contemporaries) in a series entitled Adventurers All.

LAT published The Crucifix, A Venetian Phantasy, and Other Tales (listed by the Bodleian Library catalogue as The Crucifix, and Other Tales).

The title of CC 's little essay volume The Daughters Who Have Not Revolted alludes both to the early stages of the New Woman debateand specifically to Sarah Grand 's The Revolt of the Daughters...

About two years after her husband's death EPW published, through Longman , her first poetry collection: The Enchanted Flute, with Other Poems, and Fables from La Fontaine.

Four plays by LP were collected in a volume entitled Plays: One, with her own introduction.

Eleven months before she died ASS published Who Are the Heathen? with Hodder and Stoughton ; her one other novel this year was The Family Name (with J. Leng in The People's Friend Library)...