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Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
She dedicated it to her patron Lady Hertford . The British Library copy is 12604 ccc. 7. Harvard University holds the only known copy of an undated set of subscription proposals, which is headed Any...
Textual Production Constantia Grierson
A political poem in CG 's volume (untitled, about the willingness of the Anglo-Irish gentry to spend any money to get into the purely figurehead Irish Parliament ) also survives in a copy among Lord Oxford
Textual Production Mary Delany
A stage of the work was privately and anonymously printed as A Catalogue of Plants Copyed from Nature in Paper Mosaick, finished in the year 1778, and disposed in alphabetical order, according to the generic...
Textual Production Margery Kempe
This original manuscript is not extant. The text survives only in one copy (slightly damaged by mice or rats) by a third scribe, made around 1450.
Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, edited by Sanford Brown Meech et al., Oxford University Press, 1940, p. vii - lii.
xxxii-xxxiii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The involvement of these various hands in the...
Textual Production Rachel Speght
RS chose the same publisher as Swetnam's, which seems to indicate a perception of her debate with him as worth pushing along for doctrinal or commercial reasons.
Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
65
, No. 3/4, 2002, pp. 449-63.
452
The British Library copy (one of eight...
Textual Production Susanna Haswell Rowson
Two copies are known to survive, at the British Library and at Harvard . Critic Steven Epley assigns this poem to her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, though the English Short Title...
Textual Production Elizabeth Burnet
EB 's papers survive among various collections in the Bodleian and British Libraries .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Mary Leadbeater
ML 's The Pedlars, A Tale, written for the Kildare Place Society , seems to have been published not long before her death. Though it is unlisted in OCLC WorldCat, the British Library
Textual Production Mary Rich Countess of Warwick
The manuscript of her meditations is now in the British Library .
Textual Production Louisa Anne Meredith
A book published in 1865 entitled The Lacemakers, Sketches of Irish Character has been wrongly attributed to LAM .
The Dictionary of Literary Biography and other sources credit it to her, though the British Library
Textual Production Elizabeth Baker
The 1930 Players were a group organized by Inez Bensusan , an Australian-born actress and playwright who had been instrumental in forming the Actresses' Franchise League . Penelope Forgives was never published, but a typescript...
Textual Production Mary Pix
MP 's comedy The Different Widows; or, Intrigue all-a-Mode, was anonymously published, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury .
The widowed Countess of Salisbury was also celebrated by Anne Finch . A manuscript note...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Both works (mentioned by her daughter-biographer) circulated widely in manuscript copies (particularly in the masculine environment of Oxford University ) and in printed miscellanies. Nadine N. W. Akkerman (who has argued Elizabeth Cary Falkland's probable...
Textual Production Hannah More
HM was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay
Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
Matilda Betham published at Ipswich her first book, Elegies, and other Small Poems (including many in ballad metre), dedicated to Lady Jerningham .
The British Library has a copy of this work published in London...

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