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The critical tide did not turn (despite some acute criticism from Virginia Woolf , who called Middlemarchthe magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up...

Or it may not. She had been dead some months, and use of her pseudonym may have been an obvious way of cashing in. This novel is on film in the Gothic Fiction collection put...

This was reprinted in 2004 by Asian Educational Services at New Delhi and included in 2003 by Adam Matthew Publications in part one of their microfilm collection Colonial Discourses.

Before the second London edition, 1771, a French translation had appeared, probably at Paris, which purported to have been published in London. The English Short Title Catalogue makes the all too common mistake of...

She spared the part covering the first two years, and what she had written for 1720 (mostly the months of April and May). She must have preserved the latter as evidence that she...

Her work long pre-dated the standard guides associated with the names and the publishing houses of John Murray in the mid-nineteenth century or Karl Baedeker in the early twentieth. The first form of MS 's...

Her surviving, fragile diaries are now available in an edition by Ben P. Robertson in three volumes, 2007, and on film from Adam Matthew Publications , plus a bundle of letters and a copy of...

She dedicated it to her correspondent, the Margrave ,saying that she exposes her letters to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends.Horace Walpole

In manuscript this novel, planned in the same early period as St. Clair, extended to six volumes, transcribed for its author by a young admirer, Francis Crossley . She later said that...

CS was working on this novel during the final breakup with her husband; she dedicated it in verse to her children. The first edition (1,500 copies, published by Cadell ) sold out quickly. CS made...

After the queen's accession, MB presented her with a splendid manuscript copy in a velvet binding, which is now in the British Library : Harleian MS 1860, bearing the title of A Paper-Book in small...

SLC was evidently well acquainted with the conventions of keeping a diary. She numbers her pages and records the date of each day in the margin, writing the month, often the year too, at the...

This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799. Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...

Her 281 subscribers, about 120 of them women, represented a complete cross-section of genteel provincial society. They included booksellers and a book club, and with some subscriptions for multiple copies accounted altogether for almost half...

LB 's papers at Manchester Central Library have been published on film by Adam Matthew in 1994, with those of Margaret Ashton , as the first part of Women's Suffrage Collection. The second part...