This is the first item in her Collected Works, which divides her life into four periods and treats within each period speeches (where they exist), letters, poems, and prayers. This edition excludes her translations...
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Hope Mirrlees
HM
published A Fly in Amber: Being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. It was published through Faber and Faber
, who obtained it through HM
's old friend T. S. Eliot
.
Henig, Suzanne. “Queen of Lud: Hope Mirrlees”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
1
, No. 1, pp. 8-27.
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23 October 1731: A fire at Ashburnham House in London destroyed...
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23 October 1731
A fire at Ashburnham House in London destroyed the Cottonian Library: a collection of rare books and manuscripts amassed by Sir Robert Cotton
, many of them in Old English.
