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The full title is A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters, In three Books, Composed of Prayers and Meditations, fitted for, severall times, and upon severall occasions, As also severall Prayers for each day in the...

Since the title-page calls her a wife, the signature of the preface as An Officer's Widow seems to be metaphorical. Advertisements were placed for the work in February 1799. This novel (whose only...

Susan J. Wolfson and Elizabeth Fay edited for Broadview Press , 2002, a parallel-text edition of The Siege of Valencia showing the first printed text side-by-side with the recently discovered original manuscript from the Houghton Library

Harvard 's Houghton Library has a number of significant manuscripts by MEB including notebooks as well as novels. The extensive collection of her printed titles and manuscripts owned by Robert Lee Wolff of Harvard University

Her father had cherished a never-executed project for a history of ancient Irish literature. She had issued Proposals for this work the year before publication. The Houghton Library copy of the Proposals incorporates a...

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...

According to George Ballard , MLC left in manuscript occasional poems, imitations and translations of Lucian (also translated by Lucy Hutchinson ), two tragedies, two operas, and a masque. They remained in her family...

MS had specially bound a volume of her poetry in which she wrote the title Miscellaneous poems, by Mary R. Stockdale: published at various times and collected in 1826. It is now at the...

No surviving copy was known in 1933, but the Houghton Library at Harvard bought one in October 1996.

A manuscript of this in the Hyde Collection (now at the Houghton Library , Harvard ) bears revisions by Samuel Johnson , in red ink which he told FR she could easily remove with water...

HLP was a voluminous letter-writer all her life. Though scholarly estimates differ, there is no doubt that thousands of her letters survive. The first selection appeared in print in 1833. Many early editions, however, had...

Unhappy in her marriage, JWH drafted a novel, the history of a strange being who is neither man nor woman, but lives sometimes as one, sometimes as the other. She made no move towards publishing...

Fifty items relating to CL (mostly letters addressed to her) survive in the Houghton Library , Harvard University . This collection was discovered in 1964 but took some years to reach scholarly notice.