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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 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 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 Annie Besant
Over the following months, Thomas Scott paid AB for further pamphlets which she assiduously researched in the British Museum , producing titles such as Inspiration, The Atonement, Meditation and Salvation, Eternal Torture...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cobbold
EC was very likely the (supposedly male) editor of The Chaplet, Poems, partly original and partly selected from the most approved authors, an Ipswich anthology of poetry with good representation of women.
Textual Production Edith Templeton
The British Library keeps its copy in the special locked cupboard which it reserves for pornographic books: those which it rightly supposes that some members of the reading public may be moved to deface. It...
Textual Production Fanny Holcroft
This work is not held by the British Library , the Bodleian , or Cambridge University Library . OCLC WorldCat lists only four copies of it: three in the USA and one in the National Library of Scotland
Textual Production Edith Mary Moore
The publisher was C. W. Daniel and Co. The title-page gives the author's name as Mary Moore, but it seems clear from its content that it is by EMM . (The cataloguer for the...
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
She dedicated it to her patron Lady Hertford . The British Library copy is 12604 ccc. 7. Harvard University holds the only known copy of an undated set of subscription proposals, which is headed Any...
Textual Production Mary Delany
A stage of the work was privately and anonymously printed as A Catalogue of Plants Copyed from Nature in Paper Mosaick, finished in the year 1778, and disposed in alphabetical order, according to the generic...
Textual Production Rachel Speght
RS chose the same publisher as Swetnam's, which seems to indicate a perception of her debate with him as worth pushing along for doctrinal or commercial reasons.
Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
65
, No. 3/4, 2002, pp. 449-63.
452
The British Library copy (one of eight...
Textual Production Lucy Hutchinson
LH wrote so that her children might learn about their father's life; she was also mindful of her husband's dying injunction to her to shew her selfe in this occasion a good christian, and above...
Textual Production Catharine Macaulay
It was printed for the author, by J. Nourse . CM 's primary publisher for the first four volumes was Thomas Cadell . When she offered to sell him the entire copyright of the still...

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