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Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library . Sheridan rejected it for Drury Lane
Textual Production Susan Hill
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...
Textual Production Jane Marcet
Though this is a marked departure from JM 's science-conversation format, it shares her instructional impulse, containing accounts of, for instance, the production of salt in Abyssinia. It could plausibly be ascribed to her. The...
Textual Production Sheenagh Pugh
SP published her first book, Crowded by Shadows: Poems, at Swansea in a series entitled The Triskel Poets: a slim volume in a yellow jacket with heavy black shadow occupying its bottom right...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
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...
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
While the Bodleian Library copy is perfect, the copy at the University of Alberta has been misprinted in such a way as to shuffle early pages out of sequence. The title-page, list of contents, two...
Textual Production Margaret Minifie
Though she did not set her name to this novel, her listing of an earlier title which did name her leaves her authorship in no doubt. Nevertheless, as The English Novel 1770-1829 notes, this too...
Textual Production Mary Robinson
The Bodleian Library holds some of her letters.
Textual Production Helen Waddell
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...
Textual Production Rose Allatini
Rose Allatini chose a new pseudonym, Lucian Wainwright (but the same publisher), for the first of her two novels this year, entitled Waters' Meet. Later in the year came Girl of Good Family...
Textual Production Sarah Chapone
Some of SC 's letters remain at Gloucestershire Record Office , in the Bodleian Library , and among Richardson's correspondence in the Victoria and Albert Museum . Her surviving letters to John Wesley are printed...
Textual Production Julia Frankau
JF published a new Frank Danby novel, Pigs in Clover, after a break of fifteen years (during which her children were growing up).
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production May Laffan
According to scholar Helena Kelleher Kahn , the first American edition of ML 's realist novel Christy Carew appeared in 1878, although standard library catalogues record no edition before 1880.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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Kahn stands almost alone...
Textual Production Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
The Headland, a stylistically experimental novel by CADS , was published by Heinemann
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Textual Production Jane Warton
JW 's letters, which were much admired by her contemporaries, have not survived, though Joseph's letters to her are extant in the Bodleian Library .

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