Gethin, Grace, Lady. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Norton, Frances, Lady, Printed by D. Edwards for the author, 1699.
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Reception | Ethel Sidgwick | A three-page typescript on ES
by William Stanley Braithwaite
is located at the University of Texas at Austin
, and a single document in the Peace Collection at Swarthmore College
. The Bodleian Library
... |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | This is a kind of specialised visitors' book. Its pages are forms to be filled in by the owner's friends, giving name and address, where and when they met the owner, and under the heading... |
Textual Features | Frances Lady Norton | The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. Gethin, Grace, Lady. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Norton, Frances, Lady, Printed by D. Edwards for the author, 1699. A3r |
Textual Features | John Millington Synge | It was his first three-act play. Like Riders to the Sea, it drew its inspiration from the folklore of the Aran Islands. It was published at the end of the same year, in... |
Textual Features | Margaret Fell | She does not argue an inherent right in all women to speak, but the right of selected women in specific circumstances to do so. In Old and New Testament equally, she says, it is evident... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Boulger | 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... |
Textual Features | Mary Jones | Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library
and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University
. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013. 169 |
Textual Production | Ruby M. Ayres | Four years after her first novel, RMA
issued the first of her nearly 140 titles published in a highly successful working relationship with Hodder and Stoughton
, Richard Chatterton, V.C.. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Anne Steele | Ten years after her death the first edition appeared of Verses for Children by AS
. This is now known from two surviving copies, one in the Bodleian Library
and one in the Steele Collection... |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
published a novel entitled Impossible Saints; she has called her protagonist my version of St Teresa of Avila
. Dated from Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. qtd. in Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, 2004, pp. 119-34. 122 |
Textual Production | Jane Harvey | JH
dated her preface 12 February 1806. A former owner of what is now the Bodleian Library
copy, who lived at Tynemouth Vicarage, wrote their name in the novel in 1936. The Chawton House Library |
Textual Production | Bathsua Makin | The Bodleian Library
holds poems by BM
(not indexed under M); the British Library
has a copy of Musa Virginea with a note on the final page in her writing. The Huntington Library
has her... |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | 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... |
Textual Production | Jane Warton | JW
's letters, which were much admired by her contemporaries, have not survived, though Joseph's letters to her are extant in the Bodleian Library
. |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | The Bodleian Library
holds a small collection of ES
's papers in thirty-nine volumes and boxes: diaries for 1920-37 and 1942-7, and documents relating to women's employment and women's suffrage, many letters written by her... |
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