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Publishing Cecil Frances Alexander
Two more collections of hymns followed later: Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, in 1853, and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for Village Schools, in 1858.
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CFA 's various books of hymns went through multiple...
Textual Production Rose Allatini
RA 's novel of this year, Blue Danube, was again issued under the name of Eunice Buckley.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Rose Allatini
In probably her eighty-ninth year RA (as Eunice Buckley) issued her final novel, Work of Art. Her penultimate one, Young Man of Great Promise, had appeared early the same year.
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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 Rose Allatini
RA published with her name as R. Allatini, through Mills and Boon , her first novel, ". . . Happy Ever After".
This is dated by the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Rose Allatini
RA published, undated, with publishers Andrew Melrose , Payment, a novel which traces a young male life as bitterly ended as the young female life in ". . . Happy Ever After".
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Textual Production Rose Allatini
After a twelve-year silence Rose Allatini used her married name, Mrs Cyril Scott, and the publisher Martin Secker (who had issued one of her earlier titles) for a volume of short stories, entitled White...
Textual Production Rose Allatini
Rose Allatini chose a new pseudonym, Lucian Wainwright (but the same publisher), for the first of her two novels this year, entitled Waters' Meet. Later in the year came Girl of Good Family...
Textual Production Rose Allatini
Rose Allatini published the third of her Lucian Wainwright novels, Oracle, this time with Methuen ; its title-page mentions her two earlier books under this name.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Rose Allatini
RA issued the first of her twenty-nine novels under the pseudonym of Eunice Buckley: Family from Vienna.
The Bodleian Library copy bears the acquisition date of 5 January 1942.
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Textual Production Rose Allatini
RA , as Eunice Buckley, dedicated her novel Destination Unknown, in friendship and admiration, to her fellow-writer Constance Holme .
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Allatini, Rose. Destination Unknown. Andrew Dakers.
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Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
LAT published The Crucifix, A Venetian Phantasy, and Other Tales (listed by the Bodleian Library catalogue as The Crucifix, and Other Tales).
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(25 July 1895): 13
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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...
Publishing Elizabeth Ashbridge
This edition seems not to survive, since it is unlisted (in 2007) in the English Short Title Catalogue or Early English Books Online.Reprints, however, included one published by W. Alexander of York as part...
Textual Production Lady Cynthia Asquith
Her letters to D. H. Lawrence are in the Harry Ransom Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin and her letters to Walter de la Mare in the Bodleian Library . Most of...

Timeline

Between 1355 and 1366: The first surviving road-map of Great Britain,...

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Between 1355 and 1366

The first surviving road-map of Great Britain, now known as the Gough Map after the antiquarian Richard Gough , was produced.

About 1400: An important manuscript book in Welsh, compiled...

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About 1400

An important manuscript book in Welsh, compiled this year, is now known as the Llyfr Coch o Hergest or Red Book of Hergest. It survives in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

1537: François I issued an ordinance requiring...

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1537

François I issued an ordinance requiring publishers throughout France to deposit a copy of every new book published in the Royal Library at Blois.

18 April 1593: Shakespeare's first published work, the narrative...

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18 April 1593

Shakespeare 's first published work, the narrative poemVenus and Adonis, was registered with the Stationers' Company ; the only recorded copy is in the Bodleian Library .

8 November 1602: The Bodleian Library, Oxford, first admitted...

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8 November 1602

The Bodleian Library , Oxford, first admitted readers (nearly five years after Sir Thomas Bodley 's original offer to restore Duke Humfrey's Library).

12 December 1610: The Stationers' Company agreed to deposit,...

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12 December 1610

The Stationers' Company agreed to deposit, free of charge, in the Bodleian Library one copy of every book that was published.

11 July 1637: The Bodleian Library's right to one copy...

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11 July 1637

The Bodleian Library 's right to one copy of each new book published in Britain was re-established by order of Archbishop Laud , who happened at the time to be Chancellor of Oxford University .

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.

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...

From about 1667: John Aubrey wrote the biographical jottings...

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From about 1667

John Aubrey wrote the biographical jottings on authors and other celebrities known to posterity as his Brief Lives, as part of his extensive compilation of manuscript information on many topics.

1678: Ann Bathurst, a middle-class member of Jane...

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1678

Ann Bathurst , a middle-class member of Jane Lead 's religious sect, was visited by an angel; as a consequence she began to keep a diary of her visions.

1710: Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through...

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1710

Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through the university press the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland , Antiquary.

4 April 1788: At about the time that he lost his religious...

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4 April 1788

At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.

1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...

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1825

Alexander Dyce , then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.

1830: Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans's Dartmoor,...

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1830

Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans 's Dartmoor, a poem, Sophie Dixon published at Plymouth two journals, in prose and verse, of excursions around the moor.

Texts

Friends of the Bodleian. Duke Humfrey’s Night. Bodleian Library, 2015.
James, P. D. Talking about Detective Fiction. Bodleian Library, 2009.
Johnson, Jane, and Gillian Avery. A Very Pretty Story. Bodleian Library, 2001.
Langley, Helen. Modern Political Papers in the Bodleian Library. Bodleian Library, 1996.