Bodleian Library

Thomas James's will, proved in May 1710, did not leave EJ the library: he intended it to become a public library in its own right, under the title of the Jameson Society. Elinor, however, got...

ADA 's immortal Sing-Song / How all th'old Dons were at it Ding-dong describes and exploits the annual university carnival of misrule which employed a licensed burlesque speaker. She drops, with cheerful irreverence, a...

The editors of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore see the defining characteristic of these private writings as their vitality, their passionate engagement with the world at large. The early letters are rich in...

CF is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe...

Another aspect of Oxford presents itself through the hero's bumpkin servant John Blunder, who takes the guided tour. He is full of misapprehensions: that every building he sees is a church; that Queen's College is...

BR 's Sir or Madam, published this spring, was one of her own favourites among her novels.

EB 's papers survive among various collections in the Bodleian and British Libraries .

EBCJ followed her own single poetry publication with Songs for Sale (a slim anthology of poems by her contemporaries) in a series entitled Adventurers All.

The thesis (which bears her whole name, Ruth Sofia Padel) is held by the Bodleian Library . She began rewriting it in the form of a book the same year, staying on the island of...

CADS published The Seal Princess, a prose re-working of a one-act play that had previously appeared in her 1912 collection Phoca; or, History Repeats Itself.

W. B. Yeats chose and edited for the publisher Macmillan a volume of Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, in which he sought to establish her reputation.

RA 's novel of this year, Blue Danube, was again issued under the name of Eunice Buckley.

GC published a poetry volume, Letter from a Far Country, whose title poem had been first written for radio, and broadcast in 1978 as a half-hour programme.

PF published a novel of London theatre life, Ask Me No More: its three books are set in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.

The note (probably made in 1785, which date has been written elsewhere in the book) says, The following most charming Treatise supposed to be written by the widow of Coll Springett, who became afterwards the...