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Reception Elizabeth Gaskell
The first critical edition of EG 's works, in 10 volumes, appeared in 2005 and 2006 edited by a distinguished team of scholars headed by Joanne Shattock . It includes previously unpublished materials including some...
Textual Production Lady Hester Pulter
One poem celebrates an incident from 1646: a young royalist lady whose beloved had died in battle refused to live without him and shot herself dead with a pistol.
Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Editor Eardley, Alice, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 2014.
143-6
The first title of the...
Textual Production Teresia Constantia Phillips
Spin-offs from TCP 's Apology, after both instalments and collected volumes had appeared, included not only pamphlets both against and in favour of Phillips, but selected re-issues under different titles. One example is The...
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
Some of her papers are in the National Register of Archives , while letters survive at the British Library of Political and Economic Science , the Brotherton Library at Leeds, and at Reading University .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
Despite the historical research, and setting aside later attention to getting dialect words exactly right, EG penned this work, says her biographer Jenny Uglow , page after page, without correction,
Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 181-5.
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in a fast-flowing hand...
Textual Production Anne Wharton
She also wrote what a transcriber called a Paraphrase of the 53. chapter of Isaiah, unprinted in her lifetime. The appearance of this poem in a manuscript now in the Brotherton Library (Brotherton MS...

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March-June 1670: The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of...

Women writers item

March-June 1670

The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of the book of Genesis probably written by Mary Roper , dedicated to Queen Catherine of Braganza , was beautifully transcribed for presentation.
Millman, Jill Seal. “’The Sacred Historie’: Brotherton Library MS Lt q 2, A Royalist Verse Paraphrase of Genesis by a Woman, c. 1670”. Leviathan to Licensing Act (1650-1737): Theatre, Print and their Contexts Conference, Loughborough, 15 Sept. 2004.

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