Stationers' Register

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Hodgson Burnett
The American reviews were highly flattering. The reviewer for the Boston Transcript could think of no more powerful work from a woman's hand in the English language, not even George Eliot at her best.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
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Material Conditions of Writing Anne Locke
Someone entered in the Stationers' RegisterAL 's English versions of four sermons by John Calvin on the 38th chapter of Isaiah, printed that year with her initials, dedication, and sonnets expanding a psalm.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Material Conditions of Writing Anne Locke
While in exile in Geneva, AL had worked on this rendering of modern and revolutionary material. She had only recently returned to London when her work was recorded in the Stationers' Register . Chapter...
Publishing Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Printer Henry Olney entered Philip Sidney 's The Defence of Poesie in the Stationers' Register , to rival the edition that year by William Ponsonby , printer for Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke .
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Editorial Materials”. Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jan Van Dorsten, Clarendon Press, 1973, p. various pages.
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Publishing Anne Bradstreet
AB 's brother-in-law the Rev. John Woodbridge , having travelled to London in 1647, entered her poems with the Stationers' Register . They appeared in print as The Tenth Muse on (according to George Thomason ) 5 July.
English Short Title Catalogue.
Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R. McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, 1981, p. xi - xlii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's printer, William Ponsonby , entered Philip Sidney 's The Defence of Poesie in the Stationers' Register .
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Editorial Materials”. Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jan Van Dorsten, Clarendon Press, 1973, p. various pages.
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Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , issued her collected edition of her brother 's works: the title was still The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, with sundry new additions.
This is the date...
Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's translated tragedy Antonius and her A Discourse of Life and Death were entered in the Stationers' Register by William Ponsonby .
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979.
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Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
A volume of Poems by Anna Aikin (later ALB ) was entered in the Stationers' Register ; though bearing the date 1773, it was out by the end of 1772.
McCarthy, William, Elizabeth Kraft, and Anna Letitia Barbauld. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Textual Production Katherine Philips
He had entered the book in the Stationers' Register on 25 November 1663.
Textual Production Mary Barber
MB 's Poems on Several Occasions were entered to her name in the Stationers' Register ; the date of 1734 on title-pages in the first issue of the quarto edition for subscribers seems therefore to...
Textual Production Diana Primrose
The only known work by the unidentified DP , A Chaine of Pearle; or, a Memorial of . . . Queen Elizabeth (a sequence of ten poems) was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it...
Textual Production Rachel Speght
RS 's A Mouzell for Melastomus (a polemical reply to Joseph Swetnam 's Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward [sic], and unconstant Women, 1615) was listed in the Stationers' Register .
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
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Textual Production Rachel Speght
RS entered in the Stationers' RegisterMortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed, Imaginarie in Manner; Reall in Matter.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
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Textual Production Anne Dowriche
A religious pamphlet by AD 's husband, Hugh , was entered in the Stationers' Register : she contributed prefatory verses to it, signed with her initials.
English Short Title Catalogue.

Timeline

Early August 1591
Sir John Harington 's translation of Ariosto 's heroicromanceOrlando Furioso (which means something like Roland Run Mad) was published.
26 February 1592
Christopher Marlowe 's tragedyThe Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, his most cynical play, was performed at the Rose Theatre in London.
3 April 1592
The early, anonymous tragedyArden of Feversham was entered in the Stationers' Register ; the title character is murdered by his adulterous wife.
7 July 1593
Christopher Marlowe 's tragedyEdward II was posthumously entered in the Stationers' Register .
17 September 1593
Thomas Nashe 's prose fictionThe Unfortunate Traveller was entered in the Stationers' Register .
28 September 1593
Christopher Marlowe 's poemHero and Leander was posthumously entered in the Stationers' Register .
19 November 1594
Edmund Spenser 's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium were entered in the Stationers' Register .
20 October 1595
Michel de Montaigne 's Essays were entered in the Stationers' Register , three years after the author's death.
By about July 1596
Edmund Spenser probably finished A View of the Present State of Ireland, written in dialogue form, which remained unpublished until 1633.
12 October 1597
Michael Drayton 's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared the same year.
31 October 1597
John Dowland 's First Book of Songs and Airs was entered in the Stationers' Register .
22 July 1598
Shakespeare 's comedyThe Merchant of Venice was entered in the Stationers' Register by the printer named James Roberts.
26 January 1599
A Womans worthe Defended against all the men in the world was entered in the Stationers' Register .
4 August 1600
The influential poetry anthologyEnglands Helicon was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared this year.
4 August 1600
Shakespeare 's comedy As You Like It was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it remained unpublished until 1623.