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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.
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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.
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The play was never published, but...
Textual Production Ouida
Ouida issued Critical Studies, her second collection of previously published essays.
The cover title on the British Library first edition reads Critical Essays.
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Textual Production Lucy Hutchinson
She said she undertook this work out of youthful curiosity to understand things I heard so much discourse of at second hand.
qtd. in
Mayo, Thomas Franklin. Epicurus in England (1650-1725). Southwest Press, 1934.
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She worked in her children's schoolroom, number[ing] the sillables . ....
Textual Production Josephine Butler
It is listed by the British Library catalogue in JB 's name only, but she had help from the other women. Earlier in the year she had given an address on women's rights and protective...
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 Constantia Grierson
CG 's poem is pasted to the endpapers. There are copies in the British Library and in the possession of A. C. Elias , Jr.
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
FK 's papers are at the New York Public Library , the Harvard College Library, Butler Library at Columbia University , Boston Public Library , the British Library , and the Victoria and Albert Museum .
Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984.
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Textual Production Olivia Manning
OM published her ninth and shortest novel, The Play Room (which appeared the same year in the USA as Camperlea Girls).
Contemporary Authors online mentions two works by OM : The Crimson Dawn...
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.
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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 Susanna Haswell Rowson
She dedicated it to a baronet's wife, Lady Cockburn . Since Robinson (who had not published her previous novel) had paid her thirty pounds as long ago as March 1783, it seems that this must...
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

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