Bodleian Library

HB published a third volume of memoirs, The Miracle Stone of Wales, a semi-mystical work which is classified in the catalogue of the Bodleian Library as mental healing.

One of the earliest joint publications by Marguerite and Armiger Barclay was an anonymous sentimental novel which the Bodleian Library catalogue dates 1910, tentatively but improbably, since they did not marry till 1911. It is...

On the title-page of Pretty Dear MB's pseudonym is The Countess Barcynska with an accent on the n of Barcynska. Its spring publication is mentioned in a list of new Hurst and Blackett books bound...

Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...

AB 's biographer Janet Todd identifies Amyntas, her London lover after her Antwerp period, as Jeffrey Boys , a young lawyer. He called her Astrea. His diary for 1667, now in the Bodleian Library

AB 's poems were mostly opportunistic in some way, seizing the chances offered her, either by projects of literary colleagues or by royal or other grand occasions, to make some money. She makes much use...

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...

MMB published her second poetry collection within two years, Vignettes: in Verse

Before the appearance of the first volume of her work, nearly fifty years after her death, SB was to some extent known for her songs. Often, however, the songs (some in English and some in...

Apart from her papers at the British Library , MB left a commonplace-book at the Bodleian Library , Oxford.

The first number appeared of Enid Blyton's Magazine, the month after the end of her previous periodical for children, Sunny Stories.

EB was probably the most prolific and successful children's writer of the twentieth century. In three decades she produced more than four hundred titles: picture-books for small children, fairy stories, adventure stories, school stories, fantasy...

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...

Muriel and Sydney Box , her lover and future husband, together published a volume entitled Ladies Only: Six One-act Plays with All-women Casts.

MB and Sydney Box published what Muriel later listed as her first novel, Forbidden Cargo: The Story of the Film.