Bodleian Library

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Literary responses Jane Johnson
Barbara and George Johnson took Vast Delight in hearing [this story] told over & over.
C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
16
, No. 2, pp. 165-8.
166
A member of the Bodleian staff called this notebook an important manuscript in the history of children's literature.
C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
16
, No. 2, pp. 165-8.
165
Literary responses Catharine Trotter
Anne Kelley traces in detail successive judgements passed on Trotter (later Cockburn) by her contemporaries and by the later eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries,
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate.
15-45
and delivers her own judgement that she was a radical...
Material Conditions of Writing Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS published the last of her novels before her conversion to Catholicism, Shepherds in Sackcloth: the Bodleian Library copy is one of 250 which she signed.
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne.
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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.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1459 (16 January 1930): 45
Material Conditions of Writing Agnes Strickland
For this book Agnes did research in the Bodleian Library and in Lambeth Palace library.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
274, 276
Material Conditions of Writing Philip Larkin
He had spent two terms during 1970-1 reading poetry in the Bodleian (and copying and re-reading potential choices).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
names Medora Gordon Byron
Miss Byron is the form in which this writer's name appears on all the books ascribed to her except three bearing the pseudonym A Modern Antique. Bibliographer Dorothy Blakey called the author of both...
Occupation Sally Purcell
SP lived by an odd combination of freelance, low-paying jobs. In her editor's words, Oxford allowed her to scrape a living on its fringes, not always congenially.
Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, pp. 19-24.
20
She held indoor and outdoor jobs, in...
Occupation William Godwin
WG 's diary, begun on 4 April 1788 and kept until a fortnight before his death, consists largely of names and the barest of facts. Nevertheless it forms a valuable record of the movements of...
Occupation Flora Annie Steel
During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute (whose earliest...
Occupation Anna Trapnel
She lay in bed in a trance for the ten months from October 1657 to August 1658, uttering prophecies which were written down and survive as a printed work in the Bodleian Library .
Occupation Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
An anonymous author, apparently the country apothecary Cudworth Bruch , celebrated the memory of LMWM in The Triumph of Inoculation; a Dream.
His name appears in manuscript on the title-page of the Bodleian Library
Occupation Mary More
MM was a portrait-painter and copyist, who left paintings in her family. The only one of her visual works known to survive, heavily retouched, hangs in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It was thought to...
Author summary Mary Martha Sherwood
MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
Author summary Enid Blyton
EB was probably the most prolific and successful children's writer of the twentieth century. In three decades she produced more than four hundred titles: picture-books for small children, fairy stories, adventure stories, school stories, fantasy...
Publishing Emily Gerard
EG published with Digby, Long and Co. of London an intriguingly-titled novella, The Tragedy of a Nose, which occupies about two-thirds of the volume it shares with a tale entitled A Brief Delirium...

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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