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Textual Production Georgette Heyer
The British Library holds her correspondence with the Society of Authors , and Duke University her mass of literary notes and drafts.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Beginning in the 1990s Arrow Booksbeautifully repackaged and reissued almost sixty of...
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY anonymously published her first novel, Abbeychurch; or, Self Control and Self Conceit.
Dictionary of Literary Biography 18 lists only the reprint of 1848.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983.
18: 308
The British Library has the second edition but not the first.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
58
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
MRM began a diary which she kept until 11 March 1823; it is now in the British Library .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 201
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT must have written this by 1754, when George Berkeley transcribed it with notes on making use of it for his sermons. His copy (now British Library Additional MS 46689) is titled Meditations. It...
Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
She went on working at them later, developing her skills as she went on, and doing a great deal of revision. Her critic Gary F. Waller believes that she kept two working drafts simultaneously in...
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
The British Library copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood (prompter at Drury Lane ) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
Meanwhile, however, in 1963 Nottingham Playhouse moved to new premises, and its three directors, Peter Ustinov , John Neville , and Frank Dunlop , commissioned from various writers including SDa series of short sketch...
Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
EPW privately printed the first edition of her poem Flora & Pomona's Fête; or, The Origin of Botanical & Horticultural Meetings. A Poem After the Butterfly's Ball, in order to raise money for the...
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
It ran for only nineteen performances.
Fitzsimmons, Linda. “Githa Sowerby (1876-1970)”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 135-7.
136
Compton explained that the daylight air raids, which began soon after the play's opening, discouraged theatre audiences from attending public events.
Compton, Fay. Rosemary: Some Remembrances. Alston Rivers, 1926.
157
The play was never published, but...
Textual Production Evelyn Glover
EG 's correspondence with the Society of Authors , 1921-1941, is now in the British Library , catalogued as Add MSS 63250, 3. ff. 10-71.
National Archives,. “National Register of Archives (NRA)”. National Archives (UK), 1995.
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
Textual Production Maria Abdy
Between 1838 and 1862 seven more volumes were privately printed, under the same title.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
The British Library has two editions which include personal notes to friends.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Textual Production Rumer Godden
The British Library , however, has three copies.
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.
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the Minerva Press: The English-Woman, A Novel. Not until a British Library (then the British Museum ) catalogue of 1885 was the...
Textual Production Maria Elizabetha Jacson
This book appeared, like her next, as by a Lady; the British Library copy (filmed for Eighteenth Century Collections Online) has a manuscript note identifying the author on the printed testimony of Erasmus...
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
John Gibson Lockhart managed ME 's dealings about this book with the publisher, Bentley : Bentley was to buy the first edition only, not the continuing copyright, and was to increase the payment if he...

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