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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...

There was a French translation in 1819. The original is available in the Adam Matthew PublicationsGothic Fiction series.

IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written ten novels. But it seems she underestimated: in addition to the eleven mentioned below, she listed an untraced title (not listed by OCLC or The...

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...

It came out in four volumes from Robinson , but many copies were burned in a warehouse fire. After this The Lady's Magazine reprinted it as a serial beginning in February 1804. Robinson re-issued...

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 It includes previously unpublished materials including some...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...

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...

KP left many surviving manuscripts, now in the National Library of Wales and a number of other research libraries. She is the only woman included in part two of the Index of English Literary Manuscripts...