Adam Matthew Publications

An advertisement had promised this novel for 1 June. The title-page quotation is different for each volume. The third and last volume of the British Library set comes from a second edition published...

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, in a fast-flowing hand...

The fuller title is The Womens Advocate; or, Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony, being in requital of the late fifteen sham-comforts. With satyrical reflections on whoring, and the debauchery of this age. The author...

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...

HM was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay

Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library and at Magdalen College , Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar

She produced her account first in a shorter and then in a longer version. She may have worked on wax tablets which would hold only a short passage at a time, and transferred the...

Other recent publications, print, film, and electronic, witness to a revival of interest in CN . Selected Writings of Caroline Norton: Facsimile Reproductions, containing excerpts of her poetry, fiction, and other prose, appeared in...

This original manuscript is not extant. The text survives only in one copy (slightly damaged by mice or rats) by a third scribe, made around 1450. The involvement of these various hands in the...