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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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

This is Larpent 1447 in the Huntington . It remained unpublished for the time being, but in about 1835 George Daniel of Islington printed it as by Mrs Charles Kemble, from the acting copy...

She had often heard this very popular tune sung by Sophia Johnston to words beginning The bridegroom greets when the sun goes down. Lady Anne told her younger sister, Elizabeth, I have been writing...

Some of her letters to Jane Porter survive at the Huntington Library and the New York Public Library .

LHS was an indefatigable correspondent. Her papers are to be found at the Connecticut Historical Library , the Connecticut State Library , the Huntington Library , the Schlesinger Library , the New York Historical Society

This is Larpent 1549, Huntington Library . It was published later that year, in an American edition in 1813, and in a reprint of around 1856. By 1813 it had been performed at New York...

Many of MGCB 's letters were included by R. R. Madden (a personal friend) in his edition of her Literary Life and Correspondence, 1855; but he often makes unadvertised cuts in letters. The...

There are sixty-four letters from and fifty letters to MD 's sister, Anne Dewes , among the Montagu Papers in the Huntington Library . Her correspondence from her years in Windsor, some of it unpublished...