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Textual Production Susanna Moodie
Her papers are held at the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada . Letters to her publisher Richard Bentley are available in the British Library .
Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada.
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
The date comes from an advertisement in the Monthly Catalogue, which placed the work among miscellaneous pamphlets, not poetry.
Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta, 2003.
44n2
EB sold the copyright, plus three hundred remaining copies, at B. Creake 's trade...
Textual Production Maria De Fleury
The poem's title-page announces its publication date.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The second edition, published the same year is the only one listed by OCLC WorldCat or held by the British Library . It carried an advertisement of the...
Textual Production Emma Parker
The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still.
Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby, 1811, 4 vols.
title-page
qtd. in
Feminist Companion Archive.
The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...
Textual Production Mary Catherine Hume
Tulk, her friend and mentor and a leading Swedenborg ian, had died the previous year.
The British Library copy has a newspaper cutting bound in, and manuscript notes.
A second edition, expanded by C. Pooley
Textual Production Frances O'Neill
The British Library copy is missing two pages.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Its catalogue calls her (in 2007) Francis O'Neill, but her title-page says clearly Frances.
The work was printed in Bloomsbury and Published for the Authoress...
Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As her reputation recovered in the later part of the century, fine editions of particular works began to emerge: Julia Markus 's edition of Casa Guidi Windows, 1977, and Margaret Reynolds 's landmark edition...
Textual Production Harriet Downing
On 27 December 1838, Dickens wrote to HD about an unidentified (and possibly unpublished) piece he called the unfortunate Hen.
Dickens, Charles. The Letters of Charles Dickens. Editors House, Madeline and Graham Storey, Pilgrim Edition, Clarendon Press, 1965–2002, 12 vols.
1: 476, 476n2
He addressed her as Sir and begged H. Downing Esquire not...
Textual Production Elizabeth Joscelin
EJ seems to have begun writing when she felt herself quick with child (or first felt the foetus moving inside her); this was also when she ordered her winding-sheet or shroud. Unequivocally, it seems, her...
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 Beryl Bainbridge
She wrote a good deal in 1949 about her love-affair with a German prisoner of war when she was fourteen, two years before this. To 1949 belong several poems about the Soldier of the Cage...
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 Catharine Trotter
CT contributed Calliope: The Heroick Muse to The Nine Muses, Manley 's collection of elegies by women on Dryden 's death, published by 26 September 1700.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
31-2
A different poem by her, On the...
Textual Production Janet Schaw
The first copy uncovered by scholars is now Egerton MS 2423 in the British Library collections. At the date when the work appeared in print, the Vetch manuscript was owned and kept private by Schaw...
Textual Production Mary Masters
The Bodleian Library has some letters of MM 's: MS Eng. Letters d. 45; others are in North Yorkshire Record Office, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , and in the British Library .
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Masters. 17 Aug. 2016.
Oddly, both...

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