Women authors, English
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Ballitore papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 50
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, mainly between members of the Leadbeater family, including Mary Leadbeater and her husband William, and the Shackleton family, including Mary Leadbeater's parents, Elizabeth and Richard Shackleton, her sister, Sarah, and her grandfather, Abraham Shackleton. There is also correspondence with many other relatives, including Mary's cousin, Margaret Pike. Many letters were written by children. There is extensive correspondence between Mary and the poet...
Dates:
1709-1827
Laurence Heyworth collection of English religious manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 172
Abstract:
The collection consists of 73 volumes, mostly in English, containing sermons, sermon-notes, prayers, religious reflections, tracts, commonplace books, Biblical commentaries, and other religious and theological texts, mostly from the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Almost half of the volumes include sermons or sermon notes. Most authors are unidentified, but identified authors include John Nicholas, John Henderson, and William Barton. Devotional works include William...
Dates:
1550-1820, bulk 1650-1710