Chawton House Library

AD regularly gave away copies of her work to female friends, sometimes as wedding presents. The Chawton House Library copy is inscribed as her gift to the Hon. Agar Ellison . The Lewis Walpole Library

Henry Moore copied poems into a manuscript album which he titled Poems HM 1811 (now at Chawton House Library ). The first 66 pages are occupied by MT 's work, at the end of which...

The copy now in the library at Chawton Houe bears an inscription from the author to her long-time friend Charles Edgeworth (half-brother of Maria ). An edition published at Boston in 1839 was entitled A...

The original manuscript, with the author's illustrations, is in the Lilly Library , Indiana University , while a fair copy made twenty years or so after composition, as a presentation gift to Queen Charlotte is...

SD reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided...

With PG 's name appeared the designation author of the History of Lady Louisa Stroud. There are copies of The Niece, now rare, at the British Library and Chawton House Library . PG

Though it is often hard to tell exactly how much wording comprises the title of works by EJ , this title may be read as To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the humble desire of...

Its fuller title was Strength in Weakness Manifest. In the Life, Various Trials, and Christian Testimony of . . . Elizabeth Stirredge. A copy now in Chawton House Library has a long inscription by...

The literary-critical preface, unusually for such a satirical work, bears her intials. Green says she has reasons for concealing her name, but will affix the REAL initials of that name to this advertisement. ....