Bodleian Library

Margiad Evans published her third novel, Turf or Stone, which again is longer than the one before.

HW provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke , Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works...

The former Gladys Mendl, now GHS , first used a new pseudonym, Henrietta Leslie, on a novel called Where Runs the River?, published by J. M. Dent .

MR , as the author of Mademoiselle Mori, published her last novel (though not her last book), Niccolina Niccolini.

SH published The Woman in Black, a novel or novella or ghost story with atmospheric illustrations by John Lawrence , which five years later went on to enjoy immense success as an adaptation for...

Her introduction gives a glimpse into her scholarly command of her subject. She explains the persuasiveness of the historical testimony that Taillefer sang this song before the battle of Hastings in 1066, but how no...

RA published with her name as R. Allatini, through Mills and Boon , her first novel, ". . . Happy Ever After".

One year of Mary Champion de Crespigny's diary, that for the year 1791, survives in the Bodleian Library . Until recently, because of her odd habit of referring to her husband as Starke, it...

AF 's little manuals for the teaching of English were so popular and so heavily used in schools that few copies have survived. A later-edition title-page of what appears to be her earliest extant text,...

The Bodleian Library holds the resulting 1,000-page printed folio, whose title-page is missing. The caption title on page 1 reads: Eighth month, 11 day, being the first day of the week, at nine of...

Her poetic oeuvre consists of a core of longish serious poems, a verse drama, other theatre pieces and a large penumbra of occasional poems and jeux d'esprit. She worked in the ode, essay, epistle, pastoral...

PHJ collaborated with her first husband on two mystery novels under the name of Nap Lombard: Tidy Death, 1940, and Murder's a Swine, 1943 (titled in the USA The Grinning Pig)...

DM published Final Demand, a novel (which again she also adapted for film) about small-scale financial fraud.

This is now rare. The Beinecke Library at Yale University has a copy; the Bodleian Library copy is the first item in Sidney Tongue's composite volume, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059, mentioned above.

GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one. The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...