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Textual Production Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS published The Seal Princess, a prose re-working of a one-act play that had previously appeared in her 1912 collection Phoca; or, History Repeats Itself.
The title is sometimes wrongly given as The...
Textual Production Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS published Madcap Jane; or, Youth, the second novel in her Some Wives trilogy (though it bears no direct reference to the others in the trilogy). It had illustrations by Mabel Ince .
Dated...
Textual Production Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Hurst & Blackett published CADS 's novel The Caddis-Worm; or, Episodes in the Life of Richard and Catharine Blake.
The date comes from the Bodleian Library copy. The caddis worm, larva of the dragonfly...
Textual Production Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS dedicated her novel Wastralls (the first in her Cornish Tales series) to Alice Tippett , to whose kind help on many a Sunday afternoon I owe the West-Country talk.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Scott, Catharine Amy Dawson. Wastralls. William Heinemann.
prelims
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
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Textual Production Anna Seward
The date of composition has been recently established from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library . AS rewrote the opening passage as a sonnet which she printed in Original Sonnets, 1799, but the whole...
Textual Production Anna Seward
They survive as Bodleian MS Pig. d. 12.
Textual Production Evelyn Sharp
The Bodleian Library holds a small collection of ES 's papers in thirty-nine volumes and boxes: diaries for 1920-37 and 1942-7, and documents relating to women's employment and women's suffrage, many letters written by her...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
The manuscript of Frankenstein, now in the Bodleian Library and featuring the hands of both MS and her husband , forms the centrepiece of the Shelley-Godwin Archive (http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/), whose first phase was opened to...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
During this year MS was reading works by both her mother and her father, and many publications for children.
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span&gt”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 385-11.
388, 389-90
She tried hard to get her plays published. She submitted both in 1824 to...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
But the task turned out harder than she had anticipated. The manuscripts recording her struggles to shape this material survive among the Abinger MSS in the Bodleian Library .
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 303-22.
303
Author summary Mary Martha Sherwood
MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
Publishing Mary Martha Sherwood
The Nun had new editions which the Bodleian Library catalogue assigns to 1860 and 1876.
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Textual Production Ethel Sidgwick
ES supplied a single-page foreword to the pamphlet Education for Life: The Training of the Girl Worker by Julie Eve Vajkai , printed for Save the Children at the Weardale Press .
Publication is dated...
Reception Ethel Sidgwick
A three-page typescript on ES by William Stanley Braithwaite is located at the University of Texas at Austin , and a single document in the Peace Collection at Swarthmore College . The Bodleian Library ...
Textual Production Edith J. Simcox
This text, the only manuscript of EJS 's known to survive, remains in the Bodleian Library (shelfmark MS Eng. misc. d. 494), which also houses letters to her and her brothers from the Oxford don...

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