Bodleian Library

The Bodleian (where James spoke several times and was photographed, and which presented her with its Bodley Medal in 2002) commissioned this book in December 2006.

The date of composition has been recently established from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library . AS rewrote the opening passage as a sonnet which she printed in Original Sonnets, 1799, but the whole...

SM published another book of poetry, entitled Annotations: the title is taken from Walter de la Mare , in a line that appears on the title-page.

DW published with Williams and Norgate another volume, entitled Selected Poems, which drew on Poems of Ten Years, Lost Planet, and Desert Wells.

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...

MF published Hidden Lives, A Family Memoir, with family photos, a map of central Carlisle (accurate any time up to the 1950s), and endpapers of Carlisle Central Market about 1910.

The Bodleian copy (shelf-mark 8vo Z 150 Art. B.S.) of the second London edition of volume one (1749) has Isaac Reed 's annotation and paste-in.

Its subtitle describes it as a frivolous comedy for serious acting, in three acts. By 1927 the publisher, Putnam , had issued for free distribution a pamphlet by Harold Begbie entitled Marie Stopes: Her Mission...

EPW published what appears to be her final work, Old Stories Versified, of which copies are very rare (as they are of many of her works).

MC 's Dead Men's Dollars (which sounds like an adventure story but is actually, as before, more of a romance) was published at both London and Bristol.

It had been commissioned by Martin Browne , the lessee of the Mercury Theatre, who, inspired by the success of T. S. Eliot 's Murder in the Cathedral, set out to encourage poets to...

ELL 's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden : titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot

The Bodleian Library copy of the original edition has numerous manuscript additions by the author. In 1837 a new edition of this work was published by a female friend of MT who had met with...

Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...