Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brotherton Library
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | The first critical edition of EG
's works, in 10 volumes, appeared in 2005 and 2006 edited by a distinguished team of scholars headed by Joanne Shattock
. It includes previously unpublished materials including some... |
| Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Some of her papers are in the National Register of Archives
, while letters survive at the British Library of Political and Economic Science
, the Brotherton Library
at Leeds, and at Reading University
. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | Despite the historical research, and setting aside later attention to getting dialect words exactly right, EG
penned this work, says her biographer Jenny Uglow
, page after page, without correction, Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 181-5. 181 |
| Textual Production | Anne Wharton | She also wrote what a transcriber called a Paraphrase of the 53. chapter of Isaiah, unprinted in her lifetime. The appearance of this poem in a manuscript now in the Brotherton Library
(Brotherton MS... |
| Textual Production | Lady Hester Pulter | One poem celebrates an incident from 1646: a young royalist lady whose beloved had died in battle refused to live without him and shot herself dead with a pistol. Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Editor Eardley, Alice, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 2014. 143-6 |
| Textual Production | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Spin-offs from TCP
's Apology, after both instalments and collected volumes had appeared, included not only pamphlets both against and in favour of Phillips, but selected re-issues under different titles. One example is The... |
Timeline
March-June 1670: The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of...
Women writers item
March-June 1670
The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of the book of Genesis probably written by Mary Roper
, dedicated to Queen Catherine of Braganza
, was beautifully transcribed for presentation.
Millman, Jill Seal. “’The Sacred Historie’: Brotherton Library MS Lt q 2, A Royalist Verse Paraphrase of Genesis by a Woman, c. 1670”. Leviathan to Licensing Act (1650-1737): Theatre, Print and their Contexts Conference, Loughborough, 15 Sept. 2004.
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