Bodleian Library

The more complete of these handsome manuscript volumes survives in the Bodleian Library as Rawlinson MS Poet 16, and was brought to the attention of scholars in 1931 by Nathan Comfort Starr . It bears...

Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) is now suspected to have written the libretto for John Blow 's masque Venus and Adonis, composed during the reign of Charles II and now sometimes called the first...

Many of her letters are in the Bodleian Library , others at Washington State University and Wheaton College at Wheaton, Illinois; those to Nettie Palmer are in the National Library of Australia and those...

JJ 's papers are divided between the Bodleian Library (which also holds the archives of several of her relations) and the Lilly Library .

PHJ collaborated with her first husband on two mystery novels under the name of Nap Lombard: Tidy Death, 1940, and Murder's a Swine, 1943 (titled in the USA The Grinning Pig)...

DM published Final Demand, a novel (which again she also adapted for film) about small-scale financial fraud.

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...

To a collection entitled Myself When Young, edited by Lady Asquith (Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith), SP contributed an essay discussing her childhood and early education.

FN published Olive Varcoe, A Novel under her pseudonym Francis Derrick.

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...

SG first appeared in print with her novelTwo Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots.

In The Mouth of the SwordCecily Mackworth wrote about her experiences in travelling around the war-ravaged Middle East, and about the birth of the state of Israel.

She wrote the plays in Wales, where she used to entertain the local children with impromptu stories. Neither the British Library nor the Bodleian has a copy of the original: the former has a...