British Library

AEH , who had been working as a clerk at the Patent Office and pursuing his scholarly interests in his own time at the British Museum , was offered a Chair in Latin at University College, London .

Between them, Mary Howitt and her husband William wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum printed catalogue. Bearing the expenses of a...

MR wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz to put her name on some of...

ES published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking...

MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...

With this work AW changed publishers, from Noble to Lowndes . The English Short Title Catalogue does not (2007) list this work under her name, either for this edition or the reprint of 1770; nor...

Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...

The title is the same one given to the posthumous memoirs of Catharine Colace Ross , published eleven years later. The National Library of Scotland holds a copy of this edition, of which most standard...

This work, published at Cambridge, is held by Cambridge University Library though not by either the British Library or the Bodleian .

The British Library possesses only the Boston, Massachusetts, edition of HM 's French Wines and Politics, while the five copies of the London edition listed by OCLC WorldCat are all in the USA...

In May, with only three weeks to go before publication and in desperate need of money, EP was attempting to get up a subscription for Lucy. She had (as she confided to the potential...

EPW published at Lichfield her Fairy Tales in Verse.

The book bears her name, in the form Adélaïde D. O'Keeffe: an apparent de-anglicization.

She had begun work on this book before leaving for England in November 1651. This was the first of her books to have a portrait frontispiece. The British Library holds two copies...

The fuller title was The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical. Several of them now first printed. Many of the bluestocking circle subscribed. Two British Library copies have different versions...