Bodleian Library

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...

WP published her second volume of memoirs (and her final book), Home for the Holidays, dedicated to Antonia, who read my proofs.

FK published, without a date, Mending Your Nerves, a book about the promotion of mental and emotional health which drew partly on her own experience.

The full title was yet longer: A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the...

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...

Twenty-nine years after CG 's death, her son, Arthur Godley, Lord Kilbracken , privately printed her surviving letters, with illustrative plates, as the travel book Letters from Early New Zealand.

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...

MR set her next novel, The Looking Glass, in France at a similar period, the turn of the nineteenth century.

William Helme provided no information of any kind, but the Bodleian Library copy has a Longman advertisement for other books bound in at the end, dated April 1814. A second edition appeared in 1817.

The History of Africa (published in 1830 by the author of Conversations on Chronology as the third volume in Colburn and Bentley 's Juvenile Library) is ascribed to JM in the Bodleian Library catalogue...

While AB 's dates and titles are a little uncertain, it seems that she claimed to have written work during the 1830s for The Christian Lady's Friend and Family Repository (probably Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrap Book...