Bodleian Library

Elizabeth Stone published God's Acre; or, Historical Notices relating to Churchyards.

It seems that LH wrote this book in November 1787, at a time when she was probably ill, since she had a premonition of her own death. It was deposited in the parish chest (where...

The Bodleian Library has some letters of MM 's: MS Eng. Letters d. 45; others are in North Yorkshire Record Office, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , and in the British Library . Oddly, both...

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...

WP contributed a children's book, The King of Melido, to the Enchantment Series, published by T. C. and E. C. Jack .

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...

Margiad Evans published her third novel, Turf or Stone, which again is longer than the one before.

HW provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke , Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works...

The former Gladys Mendl, now GHS , first used a new pseudonym, Henrietta Leslie, on a novel called Where Runs the River?, published by J. M. Dent .

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,...