Bodleian Library

EG published the first of her novels in which her sister had no part: A Secret Mission, remarkable as an early spy novel by a woman, and for its depiction of female power.

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 ...

RA published with her name as R. Allatini, through Mills and Boon , her first novel, ". . . Happy Ever After".

One year of Mary Champion de Crespigny's diary, that for the year 1791, survives in the Bodleian Library . Until recently, because of her odd habit of referring to her husband as Starke, it...

AF 's little manuals for the teaching of English were so popular and so heavily used in schools that few copies have survived. A later-edition title-page of what appears to be her earliest extant text,...

The Bodleian Library holds the resulting 1,000-page printed folio, whose title-page is missing. The caption title on page 1 reads: Eighth month, 11 day, being the first day of the week, at nine of...

The Bodleian Library holds some of her letters.

Fifty sets of the volumes of The Harcourt Papers were printed, intended for private circulation. Edward William says he extracted these anecdotes from MG's letters where they [were] intermixed with some family concerns, because of...

JCM 's surviving writings, long preserved in family hands, are in the Hertfordshire Record Office , the British Library and the Bodleian . She did not write for publication, though it seems that she was...

This is now rare. The Beinecke Library at Yale University has a copy; the Bodleian Library copy is the first item in Sidney Tongue's composite volume, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059, mentioned above.

GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one. The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...

SP published her first book, Crowded by Shadows: Poems, at Swansea in a series entitled The Triskel Poets: a slim volume in a yellow jacket with heavy black shadow occupying its bottom right...

LI 's Le Langage des déments, a version of her doctoral thesis on linguistic deterioration, appeared in print, from a publisher at The Hague, but in the Approaches to Semiotics series of Indiana...

DW published Early Light, a collection of her poems which she intended to embody everything that she wished to preserve.

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...