National Library of Ireland

The relevant clause in his will states: I leave all my manuscripts to Harriet Shaw Weaver and direct that she have sole decision in all literary matters relating to my writings published and unpublished.

A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...

The National Library of Ireland holds a copy of No.18 Blank Street: a Story of Dublin by the late Charlotte O'Conor Eccles, published at the office of the Irish Messenger in 1927 and described...

ME intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.

Professionally, Morgan was a notable success. She was a canny businesswoman, never afraid to assert herself against an established publisher or seek out a new one. This paid off in a remarkable level of earnings...

Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland holds several...

Unusually for a poet, SH sold copies of his works in the thousands. A critical study by Blake Morrison appeared in 1982. Heaney was a founding member of Aosdana , and an Honorary Fellow of...

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.

Apart from the letters to Trench and others printed in The Leadbeater Papers, ML 's letters to George Crabbe are now British Library MS Egerton 3709A. Her diary, now in the National Library of Ireland

ML 's papers at the National Library of Ireland include unpublished essays and poems as well as published copies with manuscript revisions. Many of these papers are in a bad state of preservation, partly because...

Once again HB sold this work from her home (by now 60 Stephen Street). It survives in copies at the National Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy ; the second of these contains...

In 1805 MT filled a manuscript album with 121 lyric poems, seventy-two of them illustrated with her own end-piece ornamentation, often depicting places where Tighe had stayed, or objects from the emblem tradition. She titled...

Some of her correspondence and a diary running from January to December 1936 survive in the archive of Hamilton of Hamwood in the National Library of Ireland .

MT left with her brother-in-law an unpublished autobiographical courtship novel, Selena. The manuscript (a copy made by William Tighe, now in the National Library of Ireland as MS 49,155/2) is the only witness...

LEB and Sarah Ponsonby wrote some of their voluminous correspondence jointly. Writing was one of their major pleasures; they selected paper with loving care, and kept an equally careful tally of replies received and of...