Huntington Library

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Gertrude Thimelby	GT 's youngest sister, Constance Aston (later Fowler) , was a letter-writer and a great collector of the manuscripts of her circle. Her collection (now in the Huntington Library ) is treated by the Perdita Project
Intertextuality and Influence	Queen Elizabeth I	QEI composed her own prayers on both personal and public occasions over the whole course of her career. Imprisoned in the Tower of London between March and May 1554 (early in her sister's reign), she...
Publishing	Ephelia	The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...
Publishing	Kate Greenaway	This book was first published in three or four distinct editions, variously bound. An unauthorized edition appeared in the USA the next year, from McLoughlin Brothers , who pirated other publications by KG ...
Publishing	Jane Anger	The title continues: Jane Anger her Protection for Women To defend them against the Scandalous Reportes of a late Surfeiting Lover, and all other like Venerians that complaine so to be overcloyed with womens kindnesse...
Publishing	Elizabeth Avery	EA wrote this work at Newbury in Berkshire, as a childless wife who had lost four children to death and had recently gone through the experience of religious despair followed by assurances of her...
Publishing	Jane Brereton	In the body of the volume she identifies herself as Melissa. Just two copies are known of a fine-paper version. One, at the Huntington Library , is wrongly dated 1725 (in Roman numerals). The other...
Reception	Anne Whitehead	Apart from George Whitehead, most of the contributors were women. The first two words of this title were later used again and again on pious testimonies. The copy at the Huntington Library has manuscript bibliographical...
Textual Production	Ephelia	The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate.The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
Textual Production	Vita Sackville-West	Manuscripts of The Land and The Garden are in the Huntington Library . The Lilly Library at Bloomington, Indiana, has some letters and early diaries. 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. VSW sold a total of eight manuscripts to the...
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	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	Most of the Egerton family's books and literary papers were acquired by Henry E. Huntington in the early twentieth century and now form part of the collections of the Huntington Library . Manuscripts of ECECB
Textual Production	Frances Arabella Rowden	Her book did well. Many clergy, many parents of girls in the Hans Place school, many relations of the author and of her dedicatee subscribed, plus Elizabeth Gunning , Richard Brinsley Sheridan , and Sarah Trimmer
Textual Production	Bathsua Makin	BM wrote elegies on the deaths of two children of Lady Huntingdon . Her Latin elegy for Henry, Lord Hastings (grandson of Lady Eleanor Douglas , who died on 24 June 1649), was never printed...
Textual Production	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	The present BL Egerton MS 607 was at one time owned by the author's descendant Samuel Egerton Brydges . Two contemporary copies of this manuscript, one of them with extensive and important annotation by the...

Timeline

27 November 1807

The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later the Adelphi), built by manufacturer John Scott, opened with an entertainment of speeches, songs, etc. written by his daughter, Jane Scott .

Johnson, Richard William. “An Unreliable Friend”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, pp. 27-8.

27, 28

April 1947

A Bethlehem antiquities dealer bought some papyrus scrolls found by a Bedouin shepherd in a cave at Qumran near the Dead Sea. One copy of the book of Isaiah has proved to be the...

Texts

Child, Elizabeth. “Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 153-73.

Eger, Elizabeth. “‘Out rushed a female to protect the Bard’: The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 127-51.

Guest, Harriet. “Bluestocking Feminism”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 59-80.

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,. Guide to Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Huntington Library, 1979.

Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 105-25.

Lanser, Susan Sniader. “Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 257-75.

Magrath, Jane. “’Rags of Mortality’: Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 235-56.

Major, Emma. “The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 175-92.

Pohl, Nicole, and Betty Schellenberg. “Introduction: A Bluestocking Historiography”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 1-19.

Rizzo, Betty. “Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 193-14.

Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.