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Though her authorship of Marriage had become to some extent known, she insisted on publishing her second novel anonymously, writing to her sister that she could not bear the fuss of authorism!Blackwood paid...

Smith provides a thorough summary of the state of librarianship as a profession at the time. She notes that even for men, librarianship is a fledgling profession, so that women seeking to join it may...

When she got back to her mother's household in England, Margaret was distressed at the mismanagement of money and frequent lack of food. She was by then sixteen, and keenly felt that she should be...

Since LJL was her father's last surviving heir, his collections (including his library and her manuscripts) passed at his death to her widower. In 1609, they passed into the royal collection, and in due course...

On her father 's death AOK applied to the Royal Literary Fund , which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200.