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Since the title-page calls her a wife, the signature of the preface as An Officer's Widow seems to be metaphorical. Advertisements were placed for the work in February 1799. This novel (whose only...

The maverick Victorian bibliographer Richard Herne Shepherd did some work on AB . In 1871 publisher John Pearson issued in six volumes The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn, reprinted...

She received other honorary degrees from Wheaton College (1967), College of Wooster (1988), Harvard University (1990), and Swarthmore College (1992). However, the roster of her awards is punctuated with her critique of the established system...

In the early twenty-first century JK continues to generate a continuous flow of critical comment. She claims a place in women's international literary history as a creator of paradigms applied to other texts. Heather Ingman

Leaving on 1 August, she toured with her father to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington. She was a hit with Harvard students, and young women attempted to style their hair like hers.

Then came a spell back in the USA while Mark held an appointment at Harvard . They lived in a poor area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where their apartment was repeatedly broken into, and their...

Before they were married Blackwood and Lowell lived (in domestic squalor) on the top floor of the London house she had bought in 1970: 80 Redcliffe Square in Chelsea. Meanwhile Israel Citkowitz (now beginning...

These poems include political subject-matter, for instance in the celebratory Ode to the President, On his visiting the Northern States. This addresses Washington as Columbia's guardian God, who emulates and surpasses the military...

In 2008 JKR was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University . The commencement address she gave on this occasion was printed in 2015 with lavish decorations under the title Very Good Lives; profits...

HC 's papers are held by Yale and Harvard Universities .

Her authorship of this volume was first revealed in a note in Roger Lonsdale 's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets in 1989. Three copies are known to survive, at the British Library , Yale University ...

Many of EG 's letters to Garrick survive on film among Papers of David Garrick at the Victoria and Albert Museum . A few of her holograph letters to other people are at Harvard .

This time she published anonymously (the English Short Title Catalogue still in 2016 lacks an ascription to her): a contemporary note in a copy at Harvard says the poem is hers. The poem appeared from...

Harold Pinter wrote the script for a film with the same title based on the novel, which was released in 1990, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Natasha Richardson , Fay Dunaway , and Robert Duvall

Unhappy in her marriage, JWH drafted a novel, the history of a strange being who is neither man nor woman, but lives sometimes as one, sometimes as the other. She made no move towards publishing...