Briggs

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Mary Linskill
After two years in ManchesterML took a job as a milliner with Briggs and Co. at Newcastle in Staffordshire. She stayed there, living in lodgings, for three years, till she was twenty-three.
Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son, 1969.
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Publishing Catharine Parr Traill
Briggs , a Toronto-based publishing house, published CPT 's short essays about nature, Pearls and Pebbles; or, Notes of an Old Naturalist, with a biographical sketch of the author by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
Thanks to the success of Pearls and Pebbles, CPT published Cot and Cradle Stories, again with Briggs and edited by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon , but this book did not do so well.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Traill, Catharine Parr. Cot and Cradle Stories. Editor FitzGibbon, Mary Agnes, Briggs, 1895.
Traill, Catharine Parr, and Mary Agnes FitzGibbon. Pearls and Pebbles; or, Notes of an Old Naturalist. Briggs, 1894.