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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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The standard biography by Gardner B. Taplin is still the most detailed overall, but it dates from 1957. Other biographies of her singly or jointly with her husband have emerged, both popular works and more...

The first critical edition of EG 's works, in 10 volumes, appeared in 2005 and 2006 edited by a distinguished team of scholars headed by Joanne Shattock . It includes previously unpublished materials including some...

A stained-glass window was erected by subscription in honour of FH in 1865 at St Ann's Church, Dublin, where she is buried. A Felicia Hemans poetry prize is awarded annually for the best lyrical...

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...

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...

Other recent publications, print, film, and electronic, witness to a revival of interest in CN . Selected Writings of Caroline Norton: Facsimile Reproductions, containing excerpts of her poetry, fiction, and other prose, appeared in...

This original manuscript is not extant. The text survives only in one copy (slightly damaged by mice or rats) by a third scribe, made around 1450. The involvement of these various hands in the...