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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Frances, Lady Norton | The full title is Misery's Virtues Whetstone, Reliquiae Gethinianae; or, Some Remains of the Most Ingenious and Excellent Lady, Lady Grace Gethin, Lately Deceased. Being a Collection of Choice Discourses, Pleasant Apothegmes, and Witty Sentences... |
| Publishing | Jane Johnson | The manuscript also contains fair copies of ten poems and a prayer. |
| Publishing | Hester Mulso Chapone | |
| Publishing | Frances Browne | 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... |
| Publishing | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | SSW
's A Visit to London serves to exemplify the difficulty of dating her work (apart from her full-length novels). (It has also been ascribed to Elizabeth Kilner
, but the chain of allusive authorship... |
| Publishing | Margaret Roper | Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster... |
| Publishing | Maria Edgeworth | ME
intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 287 |
| Publishing | Susanna Blamire | 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... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter... |
| Author summary | Enid Blyton | 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... |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | An anonymous author, apparently the country apothecary Cudworth Bruch
, celebrated the memory of LMWM
in The Triumph of Inoculation; a Dream. His name appears in manuscript on the title-page of the Bodleian Library |
| Occupation | Mary More | MM
was a portrait-painter and copyist, who left paintings in her family. The only one of her visual works known to survive, heavily retouched, hangs in the Bodleian Library
in Oxford. It was thought to... |
| Occupation | William Godwin | WG
's diary, begun on 4 April 1788 and kept until a fortnight before his death, consists largely of names and the barest of facts. Nevertheless it forms a valuable record of the movements of... |
| Occupation | Sally Purcell | SP
lived by an odd combination of freelance, low-paying jobs. In her editor's words, Oxford allowed her to scrape a living on its fringes, not always congenially. Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, pp. 19-24. 20 |
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