Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Mary Masters.
Bodleian Library
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Textual Production | Luce Irigaray | Kirsteen Anderson
published Democracy Begins Between Two, an English translation from a book of political essays written by LI
in Italian and published at Turin in 1994 as La Democrazia comincia a due... |
Textual Production | Sheenagh Pugh | SP
published her first book, Crowded by Shadows: Poems, at Swansea in a series entitled The Triskel Poets: a slim volume in a yellow jacket with heavy black shadow occupying its bottom right... |
Textual Production | Mary Masters | The Bodleian Library
has some letters of MM
's: MS Eng. Letters d. 45; others are in |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | The manuscript of Frankenstein, now in the Bodleian Library
and featuring the hands of both MS
and her husband
, forms the centrepiece of the Shelley-Godwin Archive (http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/), whose first phase was opened to... |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | The Bodleian Library
holds some of her letters. |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | HW
provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable
reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke
, Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works... |
Textual Production | Laurence Alma-Tadema | Given the coincidence of names in LAT
's family, it is hardly surprising that misattributions should have occurred. The British Library Catalogue adds the name of her stepmother, presumably in error, to its listings of... |
Textual Production | Emily Gerard | EG
's novel The Extermination of Love. A Fragmentary Study in Erotics is a satirical romance with undertones of fantasy, which seems to owe something to the new science of psychology. April is the date... |
Textual Production | Frances Notley | FN
published Olive Varcoe, A Novel under her pseudonym Francis Derrick. The earliest edition listed in OCLC WorldCat is a Boston one of 1870 (followed by a Toronto edition in 1871). Neither the British Library |
Textual Production | Alethea Lewis | The subscribers included George Crabbe
and his wife
, and Mary Meeke
(who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale
... |
Textual Production | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Holden
published CADS
's The Vampire, A Book of Cornish and Other Stories. The date comes from the Bodleian Library
copy. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | BW
(as Mrs. Sidney Webb) published another brief history entitled Women and the Factory Acts, number 67 of the Fabian Tracts. The Oxford University Libraries Online Catalogue of the Bodleian Library
... |
Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | HB
turned to a different publisher for her second autobiographical volume, Unbroken Thread: an Intimate Journal of the Daily Life in the Welsh Countryside of England's Best-loved Woman Novelist. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | The volume has for frontispiece a silhouette of MD
aged eighty-seven and five months, published on 7 July this year. Its 1821 reprint is called the third edition. The Bodleian Library
's copy of the... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | BH
collaborated with William A. Edwards
in publishing with Lippincott
of PhiladelphiaTwo Health-Seekers in Southern California, an advice or how-to book on running a small commercial orchard as an occupation for an invalid... |
Timeline
1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
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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.
1840: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented...
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1840
Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot
invented the calotype system of photography.
15 September 1870: Following the proclamation on the 4th of...
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15 September 1870
Following the proclamation on the 4th of September of the French Third Republic, the Prussian army besieged Paris.
1881: A religious novel published this year with...
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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
.
By September 1887: William Walker published at Aberdeen The...
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By September 1887
William Walker
published at AberdeenThe Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860, a history of poetry in Aberdeenshire, which had already appeared serially in the Herald and Weekly Free Press.
The volume is dated from...
1895: Falconer Madan, librarian of the Bodleian...
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1895
Falconer Madan
, librarian of the Bodleian Library
at Oxford, published two important studies of printing presses.
25 March 1901: Sarah Angelina Acland, pioneer of colour...
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25 March 1901
Sarah Angelina Acland
, pioneer of colour photography, showed her first exhibition of completed slides to a meeting of the Oxford Camera Club
. She used the new Sanger-Shepherd process, which dated from October 1899...
By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...
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By 27 September 1905
Scientist Grace Chisholm Young
published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young
: The First Book of Geometry.
31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...
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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...
By 28 November 1934: The young Flora Robson, in A Letter to a...
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By 28 November 1934
The young Flora Robson
, in A Letter to a Young Actress, contributed as a preface to Ladies Only by Muriel
and Sydney Box
, provided a fascinating account of women's part in amateur...
Early 1936: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by...
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Early 1936
The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts
(who was put forward for this task by T. S. Eliot
), set out to define the modern movement, not just chronologically but according...
March 1960: In response to an appeal from the African...
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March 1960
In response to an appeal from the African National Congress
(and following Harold Macmillan
's famous winds of change speech of 3 February), a Boycott Committee
against South African produce was established in Britain...
18 September 1961: Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the...
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18 September 1961
Dag Hammarskjöld
, Secretary-General of the United Nations
, was killed in a plane crash near Ndola in the then Northern Rhodesia
: Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published...
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Spring1965
Meic Stephens
founded Poetry Wales, published at Merthyr Tydfil, partly in order to allow English-language poets to contribute to the revitalised nationalist culture of the period.
25 November 1982: Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology...
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25 November 1982
Diana Scott
issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.
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