Bodleian Library

Still writing as Gladys Mendl, the future GHS published a second novel, The Roundabout.

She quoted Lyttelton on the title-page (which is dated 1810), and dedicated the book (as her first) to her mother. She also supplied it with a prefatory To the Reader and a Conclusion. The...

Critic Paul Douglass says this manuscript is missing from among the Byron papers in the 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...

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,...

The Bodleian Library holds the resulting 1,000-page printed folio, whose title-page is missing. The caption title on page 1 reads: Eighth month, 11 day, being the first day of the week, at nine of...

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.

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...

MR , as the author of Mademoiselle Mori, published her last novel (though not her last book), Niccolina Niccolini.

SH published The Woman in Black, a novel or novella or ghost story with atmospheric illustrations by John Lawrence , which five years later went on to enjoy immense success as an adaptation for...

Her introduction gives a glimpse into her scholarly command of her subject. She explains the persuasiveness of the historical testimony that Taillefer sang this song before the battle of Hastings in 1066, but how no...

DW published Early Light, a collection of her poems which she intended to embody everything that she wished to preserve.