qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Publishing | Maria Callcott | She said this was designed to serve the humble but useful office of introduction to more specialised works. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Mary Charlton | |
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 | Ann Hatton | This was a more ambitious affair, published anonymously with Colburn
in five volumes, and dedicated to the Countess of Derby—a member of the aristocracy more famous in her previous incarnation as the highly successful actress... |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | There is no complete edition of her letters, many of which remain unpublished. Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood, edited by Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle
, appeared in 1983. Valerie Sanders
edited Harriet Martineau: Selected... |
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 | Elizabeth Helme | She also increased the length of her work from two to four volumes. The novel was dedicated to Mrs Hastings
, who, says EH
, had encouraged both her first and her later works. Mrs... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Meeke | No original has been identified; scholar Carol Markham
assumes that the translation claim is itself fictitious. A facsimile appeared in a series from Arno Press
in 1977 with a forward by Devendra P. Varma
and... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | 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... |
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... |
Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 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... |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | 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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Hannah More | HM
was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay |
Textual Production | Julian of Norwich | She produced her account first in a shorter and then in a longer version. Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 101-24. 103-4 |
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