Bodleian Library

Hester Mulso (later HMC ) may have contributed the essay in The World published on 3 July 1755. A contemporary hand in the Bodleian copy (Per 2705 d. 307) ascribes this essay clearly to Mr...

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...

The Bodleian Library has recently acquired a later edition of one of these tales, Vivian, with ME 's autograph revisions in ink and comments in pencil by the recipient of the volume, Mary Sneyd

A Morning in the Bodleian, an essay written collaboratively by Mary Augusta Arnold and her fiancé (later her husband), Thomas Humphry Ward , was privately printed.

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...

She gave this month's date to her preface. The book reached a fourth edition by summer 1933 (as a stamp in the Bodleian Library copy records) and a reprint in the Penguin Classics series...

Helme's Translator's Preface explains that she has replaced Campe's group of pupils with a whole family and their parents, observing that children will find that more interesting. She praises the explorers for their...

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.

The manuscript also contains fair copies of ten poems and a prayer.John Newbery published a similar tale, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, in 1744. JJ 's work did not reach actual print (as...

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...

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...

The Bodleian Library 's copy of The Locked Desk has a blue cloth cover (with touches of red) showing two young people at sea in a rowing boat. The cover of a US edition pictured...

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...

CC was a prolific writer on her faith. Between 1917 and 1947, she published a number of books and pamphlets: Looking Forward: The Coming Faith and the Coming Social Order (1918), On Lecturing and Lecture...

Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn , knew Marguerite well and owned a copy of her book, which may have been used for this translation. Elizabeth writes merely that she has translated this little book out of...