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GHS 's best-known novel appeared: Mrs. Fischer's War, about an experience which she herself had endured, of prejudice and rejection by her own society as the Other, as allegedly alien and unpatriotic.

Together with Michèle Roberts , MW edited and introduced a collection of poetry by five women, Cutlasses & Earrings, published in the Playbooks series.

EG 's novel The Extermination of Love. A Fragmentary Study in Erotics is a satirical romance with undertones of fantasy, which seems to owe something to the new science of psychology.

The subscribers included George Crabbe and his wife , and Mary Meeke (who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale ...

FMP published Alicia Tennant, the story of a young woman brought up so dutiful and biddable that she is unable to go against the wishes of her elders, even when her happiness is at...

HB turned to a different publisher for her second autobiographical volume, Unbroken Thread: an Intimate Journal of the Daily Life in the Welsh Countryside of England's Best-loved Woman Novelist.

The volume has for frontispiece a silhouette of MD aged eighty-seven and five months, published on 7 July this year. Its 1821 reprint is called the third edition.

The Bodleian has a copy, 110 j. 229 (5). DW published under her initials, but included her name in her text. A contemporary reader wrote in White's full surname on the title-page of the copy...

BH collaborated with William A. Edwards in publishing with Lippincott of PhiladelphiaTwo Health-Seekers in Southern California, an advice or how-to book on running a small commercial orchard as an occupation for an invalid...

BH 's novel The Guiding Thread begins with its heroine, Joan Holbrook, a blacksmith's daughter, imprisoned in her marriage to an insanely possessive and dominating scholar.

Five hundred of JCM 's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library (MS...

CEP published her historical novel Giordano Bruno : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century in two volumes under her own name.

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.

Of this book (written among the industrial surroundings of Stourbridge in Worcestershire) neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has a copy. By now, however, ASS was issuing several books per year.

The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate. The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey