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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...

She gave this month's date to her preface. The book reached a fourth edition by summer 1933 (as a stamp in the Bodleian Library copy records) and a reprint in the Penguin Classics series...

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...

Reviewing Adrian Berry 's science-prediction book The Next 500 Years gave her the idea for this novel, and reading about film structure gave her its shape. She wrote it in six months; the result pleased...

A single copy of this first edition survives, in the Bodleian Library . It was re-issued the next year, and twice more the year after that. There were seven editions in five years, and couple...

ME intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.

Before the appearance of the first volume of her work, nearly fifty years after her death, SB was to some extent known for her songs. Often, however, the songs (some in English and some in...

Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster...

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...

The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter...

Although FS is not widely known today, some of her books have been reprinted in the last twenty years. A selection of her work is available online from the Victorian Women Writers Project . The...

A three-page typescript on ES by William Stanley Braithwaite is located at the University of Texas at Austin , and a single document in the Peace Collection at Swarthmore College . The Bodleian Library ...

Many of EL 's papers survive, although they are scattered. The largest collection is at Marsh's Library in Dublin. Collections of her correspondence survive in the Bodleian Library , Oxford, the Hove Central Library

In 2001 she made a recording of four of her poems for The Poetry Archive to offer online. Her papers are held by the Bodleian Library .

The Critical Review thought this the first of AMB 's novels to achieve excellence. This time, it said, the intricate story was well woven (at least in the first two volumes) and the plot and...