ABJ
's correspondence is scattered. The Huntington Library
has six letters; others are located in the collections of her recipients, such as the Bessie Rayner Parkes papers at Girton College
and the Lovelace papers at...
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Mary Shelley
During this year MS
was reading works by both her mother and her father, and many publications for children.
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 385-11.
388, 389-90
She tried hard to get her plays published. She submitted both in 1824 to...
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Mona Caird
The anonymous novel Lady Hetty, A Story of Scottish and Australian Life, is attributed to MC
by the British Library Catalogue and by critic Patricia Murphy
, but seems to be actually by John Service
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Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell
published a translation which was not a work of scholarship but an anguished response to World War Two: A French Soldier Speaks, whose original was written by Guy Robin
under the name...
Like the previous texts, it sold for three shillings and sixpence and was reprinted in Philadelphia in 1846 by Lea and Blanchard
. The second English edition did not appear until some years later, in...
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Hélène Gingold
In collaboration with illustrator Dudley Hardy
, HG
(the daughter and sister of stockbrokers) published Financial Sketches, the first of her two works of satirical portraits of financiers.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mary Webb
MW
's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces.
HB
published a third volume of memoirs, The Miracle Stone of Wales, a semi-mystical work which is classified in the catalogue of the Bodleian Library
as mental healing.
BH
's novel The Guiding Thread begins with its heroine, Joan Holbrook, a blacksmith's daughter, imprisoned in her marriage to an insanely possessive and dominating scholar.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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Judith Cowper Madan
Five hundred of JCM
's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband
both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library
(MS...