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Publishing Sophia Hume
The British Library copy ends with an advertisement that mentions both SH 's Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina and her Caution to Such as Observe Days and Times—which raises questions about dating.
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The first edition, unlisted in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in the Bodleian Library . Miami University holds a second edition published in 1803 at York, with illustrations from Thomas Bewick
Publishing Medora Gordon Byron
The title-page listed the names of all Miss Byron's previous novels (but not Celia in Search of a Husband). The new work was a sequel to English-Woman (of which a second edition was...
Publishing Edith Mary Moore
Again Cassell placed advertisements in the TLS, but only for a couple of weeks this time.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(21 October 1909): 389
OCLC WorldCat lists (in 2010) just two copies: in the British Library and the...
Publishing Wendy Cope
The British Library paid over £30,000 for WC 's archive: not only papers, but electronic texts: a server hosting Cope's email correspondence.
“News”. BBC Radio Four.
Publishing Eliza Haywood
This novel had two issues and a French translation in 1801. Carol Stewart edited it, together with Life's Progress through the Passions, 1748, for the Chawton House Library Series in 2013.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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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.
The Chawton House Library
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
They appeared as by Mrs C. Mathews, the form of her name preferred for her title-pages by her husband. Lessons of Truth (full title of first edition Lessons of Truth: containing The Rose; or...
Publishing Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW 's A Visit to London serves to exemplify the difficulty of dating her work (apart from her full-length novels). (It has also been ascribed to Elizabeth Kilner , but the chain of allusive authorship...
Publishing Harriet Smythies
The novel was reprinted in volume form in 1880 by J. and R. Maxwell .
Dated from the acquisition stamp in the British Library copy. Montague Summers writes that upon its reappearance it was thought...
Reception Jane Lead
Several of JL 's works now in the British Library were formerly owned by the artist and scene-painter Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg , who left annotations in a few of them.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Reception Sylvia Plath
In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez (who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time ....
Reception Dorothy Osborne
The first printing of DO letters in 1836 was well reviewed by Macaulay two years after it appeared. One recent literary-critical analysis is that of James Fitzmaurice and Martine Rey , Letters by Women in...
Reception Margery Kempe
The year 2018 was a high point in MK studies, with the first academic conference devoted to her, and the establishment of the Margery Kempe Society . Diane Watt summarized the growth of her reputation...
Reception Joan Whitrow
The poet Pope was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for...
Reception J. K. Rowling
In winter 2017-18 a British Library exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, demonstrated how JKR mined old, esoteric texts, and how she worked at planning and structuring the novels.
Rundell, Katherine. “At the British Library”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 24, 14 Dec. 2017, p. 22.

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