Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
British Library
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Maria Abdy | Between 1838 and 1862 seven more volumes were privately printed, under the same title. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Reception | Rose Allatini | At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed... |
Textual Production | Rose Allatini | In 2008 the British Library
and the Bodleian
catalogues still listed the three Wainwright novels under this name, with no mention of Allatini's real one. |
Textual Production | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | In her will ALF
left all works written by herself and her daughters to one of them, Katherine: this suggests a household of women writers, possibly on domestic subjects. In 1651, with her husband away... |
Publishing | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | This edition included valuable biographical material, but was surpassed by that of John Loftis
for Oxford University Press
, 1979, which for the first time accurately reproduces the text of the British Library
manuscript. It... |
Textual Production | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | The extant manuscript of Ann Fanshawe
's Memoirs of her late husband was transcribed this month. This copy is now British Library
Additional MS 41161. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 91-9. 91 |
Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | ALS
wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems... |
Textual Production | Diana Athill | Neither the British Library
nor the |
Textual Production | Anna Atkins | It appeared before Fox Talbot
's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially... |
Publishing | Margaret Atwood | MA
's graphic short story Freeforall, adaptation and art by Christian Ward
, appeared in the Guardian newspaper in connection with the British Library
exhibition Comics Unmasked. Atwood, Margaret, and Christian Ward. “Freeforall”. The Guardian, pp. 59-63. |
Textual Production | Jane Austen | Volume the Third was bought by the British Library
. The incomplete manuscript of The Watsons was bought at this sale by a private buyer who placed it on deposit at Queen Mary and Westfield College |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Avery | EA
wrote this work at Newbury in Berkshire, as a childless wife who had lost four children to death and had recently gone through the experience of religious despair followed by assurances of her... |
Textual Production | Anne Bacon | Searches have turned up numbers of AB
's papers, surviving in the British Library
and among her son Anthony's papers at Lambeth Palace
in London. Martin, Julian. Conversations about Anne Bacon with Isobel Grundy. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Beryl Bainbridge | At fourteen BB
fell seriously in love with a German prisoner of war, Harry Arno Franz
, who was ten years older. They were constantly together over the summer of 1947, though they were not... |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | She wrote a good deal in 1949 about her love-affair with a German prisoner of war when she was fourteen, two years before this. To 1949 belong several poems about the Soldier of the Cage... |
Timeline
By 3 March 1470: Sir Thomas Malory, a political prisoner in...
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By 3 March 1470
Sir Thomas Malory
, a political prisoner in London, most probably in the Tower, finished compiling and writing his collection of legendaryArthurian
romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.
About 1529: The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated...
Building item
About 1529
The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated by Richard Hyrde
from Juan Luis Vives
of Valencia in Spain, was published, after the translator's death.
About the 1530s-1540s: The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library...
Women writers item
About the 1530s-1540s
The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library
Add. 17492) was compiled in large part by women, who edited and probably wrote and transcribed a number of the poems. The title-page of Elizabeth Heale
's edition, 2012...
After July 1553: An unknown person presented to Queen Mary...
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After July 1553
An unknown person presented to Queen Mary Tudor
the finely illuminated manuscript now known as the Queen Mary Psalter (Royal 2 B vii in the British Library
).
Before 1638: William Page, Fellow of All Souls College,...
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Before 1638
William Page
, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
, created a proto-feminist text entitled Womens Worth: A Treatise proveing by sundrie reasons that woemen do excell men.
31 October 1658 : Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Thomas Austen...
Women writers item
31 October 1658
Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Thomas Austen
died. His widow, Katherine
, kept a series of manuscript books containing religious meditations, notes about her life, family records, and poems (mostly religious).
From 1662: The King's Library (now part of the British...
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From 1662
The King's Library (now part of the British Library
) and Cambridge University Library
enjoyed the legal right to a copy of every book published in Britain (a right granted to the Bodleian
on 11...
By 6 April 1742: An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess...
Women writers item
By 6 April 1742
An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, a politicalapologia and attack on her enemies composed by her over almost forty years with various helpers, appeared a few weeks after Prime Minister...
15 January 1759: The British Museum (including what had formerly...
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15 January 1759
The British Museum
(including what had formerly been known as the King's Library
), established six years earlier, was first opened to the public.
1798-1800: August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel...
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1798-1800
August Wilhelm
and Friedrich von Schlegel
published their periodicalDas Athenäum, the manifesto of the German Romantic movement.
1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
Women writers item
1838
Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria
's Scottish ancestry.
1867: The library of books by women collected by...
Women writers item
1867
The library of books by women collected by the Rev. Francis John Stainforth
was sold at Sotheby
's and the greater part of it acquired for the British Museum (that part of it which is...
1881: A religious novel published this year with...
Women writers item
1881
A religiousnovel published this year with 1882 on its title-page, Nellie; or Seeking Goodly Pearls by Mrs Meredith, has been wrongly ascribed to Louisa Anne Meredith
, but is actually by the Evangelical Christian Susanna Meredith
.
31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...
National or international item
31 October 1910
Frances Olive Underhill
, a graduate of Royal Holloway College
, was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson
Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian
: the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...
1939: Peig Sayers published in Ireland her Machtnamh...
Women writers item
1939
Peig Sayers
published in Ireland her Machtnamh seana-mhná (whose title is here transliterated from Irish script, as it is in the British Library
catalogue).
Texts
Austen-Leigh, William, and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh. Jane Austen: A Family Record. Editor Le Faye, Deirdre, British Library, 1989.
Bell, Quentin, and Virginia Woolf. The Charleston Bulletin Supplements. Editor Olk, Claudia, British Library, 2013.
Forster, Antonia. Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800. British Library, 1997.
Marson, Una. At What a Price. British Library, 1932.