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Textual Production Elizabeth Elstob
This trip was apparently unsuccessful. Although very many subscriptions were sold at Cambridge , sufficient money eluded her, and the printing of the complete homilies broke off abruptly (in mid-sentence) at the end of the...
Textual Production Evelyn Underhill
EU drew her material here from manuscripts in the British Museum (now the British Library ) as well as from old printed books.
Underhill, Evelyn. The Miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary. W. Heinemann, 1905.
xxvi
She aimed at re-introducing to English readers a cycle of old...
Textual Production Elizabeth Joscelin
EJ seems to have begun writing when she felt herself quick with child (or first felt the foetus moving inside her); this was also when she ordered her winding-sheet or shroud. Unequivocally, it seems, her...
Textual Production Bathsua Makin
The title-page, in Latin, names her father as well as herself, mentions her tender age, and bears epigraphs in Greek and French. The British Library copy has a note on its final page in the...
Textual Production Patricia Beer
PB gave a lecture at the British Library under the auspices of the Centre for the Book , which was published the next year as The Truth of Imagination.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Mary Cholmondeley
Letters and other papers of MC 's survive in the British Library , the Bodleian Library , and Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service . Many of her works have become available in...
Textual Production Susan Ferrier
Though her authorship of Marriage had become to some extent known, she insisted on publishing her second novel anonymously, writing to her sister that she could not bear the fuss of authorism!
qtd. in
Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne, 1984.
68
Blackwood paid...
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 Rose Hickman
The British Library has three copies of her work, but none is her original. The earliest, most likely made by her son William Hickman around the date of her death, is bound up with an...
Textual Production Alethea Lewis
The subscribers included George Crabbe and his wife , and Mary Meeke (who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale ...
Textual Production Edith Mary Moore
EMM , calling herself by only part of her name, Mary Moore, appears to have published The Defeat of Woman, an 87-page non-fictional treatise on women and society.
Dated from the British Library acquisition stamp.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Emma Parker
EP 's preface says she chose the epistolary form in order to concentrate on character, not incident. OCLC lists a single surviving copy at New York University , bearing a signature which appears to be...

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