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Lot 248

MISCELLANY – WOMEN WRITERS

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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MISCELLANY – WOMEN WRITERS

Collection of autograph letters etc., by Maria Edgeworth (thanking her correspondent, the abolitionist James Cropper, for "information respecting the Liv[erpool] Rail road", 1826), Amelia Opie (to Blake's friend William Hayley, informing him that Dawson Turner wants his autograph), Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, Louise Chandler Moulton, Francesca Alexander, Fanny Trollope, Elizabeth Sandford, Laetitia E. Landon, Margueritte Blessington, Anna Jameson, Teresa Guiccioli (addressee's name excised), Mary Russell Mitford, Barbara Hofland, Mrs Humphry Ward ("...The Anti-Suffrage Association is only just beginning work..."), Sara Stickney Ellis, Ana Eliza Bray (on the death of hr mother), Mary Somerville and others, mounted on album leaves, with portraits etc., in a loose folder labelled 'Women'

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