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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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
CFA 's various books of hymns went through multiple...
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
A Morning in the Bodleian, an essay written collaboratively by Mary Augusta Arnold and her fiancé (later her husband), Thomas Humphry Ward , was privately printed.
Wilkes, Joanne. “Mary Ward as Critic of Matthew Arnold”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 453-67.
456 and n7
Publishing Harriet Corp
HC 's Talents Improved; or, The Philanthopist, now known not to have been her earliest published work, mentions on its title-page her authorship of Interesting Conversations. The Bodleian 's copy (apparently the first...
Publishing Jane Austen
Volume the Third was bought by the British Library . The incomplete manuscript of The Watsons was bought at this sale by a private buyer who placed it on deposit at Queen Mary and Westfield College
Publishing Lady Margaret Sackville
Fifty copies of the edition were printed on Arches French handmade paper, consecutively numbered, and signed by the Author.
Sackville, Lady Margaret. 100 Little Poems. Porpoise Press.
prelims
(The rest of the edition was more ordinarily produced. Bodley 's copy, consulted for this...
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
The Bodleian Library has recently acquired a later edition of one of these tales, Vivian, with ME 's autograph revisions in ink and comments in pencil by the recipient of the volume, Mary Sneyd
Publishing Jane Johnson
The manuscript also contains fair copies of ten poems and a prayer.
C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 165-8.
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John Newbery published a similar tale, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, in 1744. JJ 's work did not reach actual print (as...
Publishing Hester Mulso Chapone
Hester Mulso (later HMC ) may have contributed the essay in The World published on 3 July 1755. A contemporary hand in the Bodleian copy (Per 2705 d. 307) ascribes this essay clearly to Mr...
Publishing Frances, Lady Norton
The full title is Misery's Virtues Whetstone, Reliquiae Gethinianae; or, Some Remains of the Most Ingenious and Excellent Lady, Lady Grace Gethin, Lately Deceased. Being a Collection of Choice Discourses, Pleasant Apothegmes, and Witty Sentences...
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...
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.
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She held indoor and outdoor jobs, in...
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

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