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Publishing Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Her preface avows both a literary and a practical goal: she will be happy, she says, to please female readers with something new and romantic, but even more pleased if her volumes meet with a...
Publishing Mary Tighe
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...
Publishing Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
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 .
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
39, 57
She later said that...
Reception Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
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...
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
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.
“Colonial Discourses. Series Three: Colonial Fiction, 1650-1914”. General Works and Fiction from the British Library, London, Vol.
part 1
, Adam Matthew.
Publishing Mariana Starke
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
The first form of MS 's...
Publishing Charlotte Smith
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...
Publishing Eleanor Sleath
This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 761
Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...
Publishing Eleanor Sleath
There was a French translation in 1819. The original is available in the Adam Matthew PublicationsGothic Fiction series.
Publishing Sarah Savage
She intended it as a record of the workings of my heart.
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. Holdsworth and Ball.
x
Such a record was important in what Patricia Crawford has described as the family ideology of the Henrys. Diaries by SS 's...
Textual Features Sarah, Lady Cowper
She apparently began by allotting so many pages to each letter of the alphabet, and it seems she could have continued collecting longer than she did, since at the end of her notes under A...
Publishing Sarah, Lady Cowper
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...
Publishing Regina Maria Roche
A number of RMR 's titles are available on film in the collection Gothic Fiction issued by Adam Matthew Publications .
Publishing Mary Robinson
There were nearly six hundred subscribers. A chapbook abbreviated version appeared in 1810,
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
and a microfilm in the Adam Matthew PublicationsGothic Fiction collection, 2003. Copies of the first edition are now rare, and one...
Publishing Clara Reeve
This novel was advertised both before and after publication. It has been filmed in the Adam Matthew PublicationsGothic Fiction collection.

Timeline

After July 1553: An unknown person presented to Queen Mary...

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After July 1553

An unknown person presented to Queen Mary Tudor the finely illuminated manuscript now known as the Queen Mary Psalter (Royal 2 B vii in the British Library ).

1816: The Church Missionary Society or CMS began...

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1816

The Church Missionary Society or CMS began publishing its periodical The Missionary Papers, which ran with several changes of title until 1917.

Texts

The Mass Observation Archive. Adam Matthew Publications.