Bodleian Library

MB published her second and best-known novel, The Big Switch, a satirical post-nuclear fantasy or science fiction about a future with women in command.

MB 's last book was Rebel Advocate: A Biography of Gerald Gardiner (formally Gerald Austin Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Killiford ), her second husband.

She wrote the plays in Wales, where she used to entertain the local children with impromptu stories. Neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has a copy of the original: the former has a...

While AB 's dates and titles are a little uncertain, it seems that she claimed to have written work during the 1830s for The Christian Lady's Friend and Family Repository (probably Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrap Book...

There are in fact further (though highly speculative) grounds to suspect an involvement of FB (lately Frances Moore) in The World. A set of it now in the Bodleian Library has had contributors' names...

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...

Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...

Sir Walter Scott had encouraged her from poetry into novel-writing. Unless the condition of her eyes improved miraculously during the sixteen months before publication, she must have composed by dictating to an amanuensis. Copies of...

Bulstrode had by now been dead several years. Competing versions of the text were issued this year. The main work in this volume, the poem about the choice of a wife, was clearly extremely popular...

EBkept a constant Journal of her Life, as well as writing in various forms on particular occasions as they arose. The journal survives as the largest item in MS Rawlinson D 1092, at...

EB 's papers survive among various collections in the Bodleian and British Libraries .

The archive of more than 400 pieces of poetry amassed by Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt (now in the Bodleian Library ), included a brief extract from A Prayer, written at Edinburgh in 1800, by the Right...

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...

It was intended to provide information about progress on an international scale about the campaign for women's education. Biographer Jane Jordan notes that Elizabeth Wolstenholme and Jessie Boucherett backed Josephine with articles for the first...

Miss Byron is the form in which this writer's name appears on all the books ascribed to her except three bearing the pseudonym A Modern Antique. Bibliographer Dorothy Blakey called the author of both...