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Textual Production Dorothea Du Bois
She dedicated it to Lady Hertford . A manuscript note on the title-page of the British Library copy says, containing her own Life and Adventures;
Du Bois, Dorothea. Theodora. Printed for the author by C. Kiernan, 1770, 2 vols.
title-page manuscript note
on the verso the same hand...
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture given at the University of Wales , Swansea, was published the same year under the title Donkey Business; donkey work: magic and metamorphosis in contemporary opera...
Textual Production Sarah Grand
SG first appeared in print with her novelTwo Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots.
Scholars like Gillian Kersley , Ann Heilmann ...
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
She may have worked on wax tablets which would hold only a short passage at a time, and transferred the...
Textual Production Bathsua Makin
It was dedicated to Queen Anne , wife of James I (who died on 2 March this year). It seems that this was to be printed as a pamphlet; one sample sheet survives in a...
Textual Production Jane Barker
JB 's Exilius, or the Banish'd Roman (a collection of extravagantly heroic
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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tales or romances) was advertised as newly published.
The British Library still (in 2010) lists a copy as probably 1712.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols.
(August 1714)
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
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Textual Production Anna Trapnel
AT issued a tract entitled either A Voice for the King of Saints and Nations or A Lively Voice for the King of Saints and Nations.
The British Library 's copy, apparently a unique...
Textual Production Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS also contributed to a collection issued by the Royal Society of Literature in 1931: Essays by Divers Hands (edited by Sir Francis Younghusband ). She wrote the forewords to Lorna Keeling Connard's part-verse...
Textual Production Jane Harvey
JH dated her preface 12 February 1806. A former owner of what is now the Bodleian Library copy, who lived at Tynemouth Vicarage, wrote their name in the novel in 1936. The Chawton House Library
Textual Production Philip Larkin
PL began to fill the first of his surviving poetry notebooks. He continued to use it until March 1950, and in 1965 he presented it to the British Library .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Mary Masters
The Bodleian Library has some letters of MM 's: MS Eng. Letters d. 45; others are in North Yorkshire Record Office, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , and in the British Library .
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Masters. 17 Aug. 2016.
Oddly, both...
Textual Production Elizabeth Beverley
The only known copy dated this year is at the University of California at Davis . The British Library 's four copies include the allegedly fourth and sixth editions, and the New York Public Library
Textual Production Anne Conway
This correspondence is just part of a large haul discovered by Horace Walpole in August 1758, lying around disregarded at Ragley Hall, partly rotten and partly gnawed by rats. Walpole rescued the collection and...
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY 's surviving letters are mostly at the British Library , Harvard University , and Princeton University .
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
The British Library holds a number of CT 's letters, her journal, the manuscript of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, and poems (which, however, are not catalogued under her name). It...

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