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Publishing Mary Robinson
She received £63 for the copyright; 1,250 copies were printed.
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
17
, 1987, pp. 191-07.
204n19
The portrait in the British Library copy is an insertion, although the English Short Title Catalogue mentions it as integral to the edition.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2024, Numbered catalogues.
87
Publishing Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bridges had already been trying the water by introducing a few individual Hopkins poems into anthologies. Only 750 copies of this edition were printed. The British Library copy contains manuscript notes by C. H. Wilkinson
Publishing Isak Dinesen
Again she wrote at Rungstedlund, first in English and then in Danish. She had her English manuscript conveyed in the diplomatic pouch of Sweden (a neutral country) to Random House in New York...
Publishing Katharine S. Macquoid
Her husband, already a regular contributor, illustrated some of the children's poems and stories she published there under the pseudonym of Gilbert Percy (made up of the names of her sons). These were collected in...
Publishing Samuel Beckett
Fittingly, perhaps, SB 's last two texts were an English prose piece and a French poem: Stirrings Still, 1988, and Comment dire (What is the Word, written in hospital while recovering from...
Publishing Georgiana Chatterton
Many of GC 's last works were privately printed. According to the original Dictionary of National Biography, she first used this means of publication for Quagmire Ahead, 1864, then for A Plea for...
Publishing Alice Thornton
She brought this account of her life up to her husband's death. The original of this first book is not known to be extant, but a copy made by one of her descendants survives, identified...
Publishing Sarah Lady Pennington
It went through two more London editions this year, and eight by 1789. Each copy of the first four editions ends with SLP 's printed signature or manual sign, S. Pennington (as can be...
Publishing Susanna Hopton
George Hickes believed this work to be by SH . He also noted that a section added to it in 1688 in a form then titled The Sacrifice of a devout Christian was identified by...
Publishing Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
This work, published at Cambridge, is held by Cambridge University Library
“Newton Library Catalogue”. University of Cambridge: Cambridge University Library and Dependent Libraries.
though not by either the British Library or the Bodleian .
Publishing Harriet Martineau
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...
Publishing Christine de Pisan
Both the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the British Library in London have important manuscripts of works by Christine de Pisan , many of them beautifully illuminated. Those at the British Library, including the Queen's...
Publishing Alicia D'Anvers
ADA 's Oxford university satire Academia had a new, anonymous edition (the original owner of the British Library 's copy recorded the full date on the title-page).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Publishing Margaret Emily Shore
The fully indexed text received a second edition in 1898 with drawings by MES .
Shore, Margaret Emily. Journal of Emily Shore. Editors Shore, Louisa Catherine and Arabella Shore, New edition, Kegan Paul, 1898.
375
Arabella Shore willed the volumes to the British Museum (now the British Library ), but her will was never...
Publishing Anna Maria Bennett
It bore a quotation from Montaigne on the title-page. AMB says the errors in her text sprang from its having been written far from home (in Edinburgh), in the greatest Distress, both of Mind...

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