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Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
In a third book of memoirs, Love Among the Daughters, EH wrote of her studies at Reading University and Cornell in the 1920s.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
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Textual Production Kathleen E. Innes
The book had an initial print run of 2,500 copies which sold very quickly. A second impression of 1,500 was printed in October, and further impressions of 1,500 were printed in 1926, 1927, and 1930....
Textual Production Elinor Mordaunt
Letters of EM 's survive at the State Library of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), Richmond Central Library (Richmond, Surrey), the University of Newcastle , and especially the University of Reading .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Kathleen Nott
Lewis founded and ran this small private press, whose archive is now held by Reading University . Other poets in the Keepsake Chapbooks series included Karen Gershon and Anne Stevenson .
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 Naomi Royde-Smith
Collections of letters from NRS are preserved at the University of Reading , University College, London , and the University of Texas at Austin .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Menella Bute Smedley
Some of MBS 's letters to her publisher survive at the University of Reading .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Violet Fane
A large selection of VF 's personal papers are held at the University of Reading . The collection includes letters, diaries, sketchbooks, as well as manuscript copies of her works.
“Papers of Mary Montgomerie Currie (Violet Fane)”. University of Reading: Library: Special Collections: Authors’ Papers.
Her letters to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Textual Production Anna Wickham
Many of AW 's papers and letters—including most of Natalie Barney 's letters to her—were lost when Wickham's attic was destroyed by a fire-bomb in 1943.
Schenck, Celeste. “Anna Wickham”. The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott, Indiana University Press, pp. 613-17.
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Hepburn, James et al. “Editor’s Note and Acknowledgements”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, p. xxv - xxvi.
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Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48.
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Some of her letters to Natalie Barney
Textual Production Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Many of JFLW 's letters (mostly to Oscar ) are held in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. Other letter collections are held at the University of Reading (which has typed...
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
The Longman archive at Reading University contains material on BH .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
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Reception Mary Latter
This work is now very rare: the English Short Title Catalogue lists two copies: at the University of Reading and the University of Otago , New Zealand.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Some suspicion arises that she may have...
Reception Catherine Fanshawe
CF 's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper and Walter Scott , as well as Joanna Baillie , Anne Grant , and Mary Berry
Reception Elinor Glyn
Philip de Laszlo painted two portraits of EG , one in 1912 and the other in 1927. They can be viewed on line at the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery website, at www.jssgallery.org.
John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery. http://www.jssgallery.org/.
under Elinor Glyn
Publishing Elspeth Huxley
As an undergraduate at Reading University , already a seasoned professional journalist, EH tried to supplement her meagre finances by producing short stories and reportage, but they did not sell. She continued to write unpaid...

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4 August 1724: The first Thomas Longman bought for £2,282.9s.6d...

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4 August 1724

The first Thomas Longman bought for £2,282.9s.6d a house in Paternoster Row (later numbered 39, already identified by the Sign of the Ship) and the bookselling and publishing business based there, whose owner, William Taylor

October 1908: Edith Morley won a battle in her ongoing...

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October 1908

Edith Morley won a battle in her ongoing struggle against gender discrimination when she became the first female professor at any British university or college.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1926: Reading University received its charter;...

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1926

Reading University received its charter; it had existed until a couple of years previously as Reading College.

4 September 1957: The Wolfenden Commission published its Report...

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4 September 1957

The Wolfenden Commission published its Report on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution which recommended the decriminalization of homosexual acts occurring in private between consenting adults over 21, but suggested stricter regulation of prostitution.

By 1965: Five English universities were offering B.Ed....

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By 1965

Five English universities were offering B.Ed. degrees: Keele , Leeds , Reading , Sheffield , and Sussex .

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