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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Bound in with the Bodleian 's copy of ?1795 is a fair scribal copy of Verses addressed to the Duchess of Devonshire upon reading her poem written in Switzerland, in 23 stanzas by W. Drummond
Literary responses Jemima Tautphoeus
JT 's fiction received mixed reviews during her life. A Mrs Marie Barrett-Lennard of Sevenoaks went to some trouble to locate copies of her books in the late 1920s, when one might have supposed her...
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, 1940.
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/.
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, 1980.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1459 (16 January 1930): 45
names Anne Audland
  • BirthName: Anne
    Scholar Phyllis Mack spells her name Ann, though the catalogues of both the British Library and the Bodleian have Anne.
    Newby
  • Married: Audland; Camm
names Charlotte Grace O'Brien
  • BirthName: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
    Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications, 1983.
    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, 1990.

  • Indexed: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
    The British Library , Bodleian Library , and Cambridge University Library all list her as Charlotte Grace O'Brien; all except the Bodleian ascribe earlier work by Charlotte...
names Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
  • BirthName: Mary Anne Galton
  • Married: Schimmelpenninck; M. A. Schimmelpenninck; Schimmelpenning
    She herself sometimes spelt her name this way (for instance, on a letter now in the Bodleian Library ).
    Londry, Michael. letter to Isobel Grundy about Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck et al. 26 July 2009.
  • Pseudonym: One of its [the Moravian Brethren's] Members
names Lady Anne Clifford
  • BirthName: Lady Anne Clifford
  • Married: SackvilleCountess of Dorset
  • Styled:
  • Titled: SackvilleCountess of Dorset; HerbertCountess of Pembroke and Montgomery; Baroness Clifford
    LAC was posthumously recognised as Baroness Clifford in her own right. It would be normal...
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 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 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 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 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, 2002, pp. 19-24.
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She held indoor and outdoor jobs, in...
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...

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.
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Gordon, Miss. A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History. 2nd ed., John Souter, 1838, p. 60 pp.
The Bodleian catalogue ascribes this to L. Gordon.

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.
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Gordon, Miss. A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History. 2nd ed., John Souter, 1838, p. 60 pp.
The Bodleian catalogue ascribes this to L. Gordon.

1840: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented...

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1840

Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented the calotype system of photography.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
14-5
Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.
4-7
Galligan, Francesca. “The Personal Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot”. Bodleian Library Friends’ Newsletter, 2012, p. 2.

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.
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
202
Sayer, John. “Diary of an Unknown Parisienne”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xviii
, No. 1, Apr. 2003, pp. 43-56.
43-4, 47-50

1881: A religious novel published this year with...

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1881

A religious novel 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...

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.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
164
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
284

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.
Young, Grace Chisholm, and William Henry Young. The First Book of Geometry. J. M. Dent, 1905.

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...

March 1933: The Woman's Leader (formerly The Common Cause)...

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March 1933

The Woman's Leader (formerly The Common Cause) ended publication; once again it was revived in a new form, the following month, as The Townswoman.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Bibliographers David Doughan and Denise Sanchez give a...

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
Hughes, Matthew. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 32-3.
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