Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
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Reception | Dylan Thomas | At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT
delivered the typed, completed manuscript... |
Textual Features | John Millington Synge | It was his first three-act play. Like Riders to the Sea, it drew its inspiration from the folklore of the Aran Islands. It was published at the end of the same year, in... |
Textual Features | Margaret Fell | She does not argue an inherent right in all women to speak, but the right of selected women in specific circumstances to do so. In Old and New Testament equally, she says, it is evident... |
Textual Features | Mary Jones | Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library
and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University
. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013. 169 |
Textual Features | Dorothy Boulger | Many of them flag through their titles the fact that their pivotal roles belong to women, in a way that suggests they were intended for a mostly female audience. Such titles include two which look... |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | This is a kind of specialised visitors' book. Its pages are forms to be filled in by the owner's friends, giving name and address, where and when they met the owner, and under the heading... |
Textual Features | Frances Lady Norton | The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. Gethin, Grace, Lady. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Norton, Frances, Lady, Printed by D. Edwards for the author, 1699. A3r |
Textual Production | E. B. C. Jones | EBCJ
followed her own single poetry publication with Songs for Sale (a slim anthology of poems by her contemporaries) in a series entitled Adventurers All. Dated by the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | JF
, as Frank Danby, published The Heart of a Child, a novel about a slum child's rise through theatrical stardom into upper-class marriage. Dated from Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Ruby M. Ayres | Forty-one years after the appearance of her first novel, RMA
issued her last, Love Without Wings. Dark Gentleman had appeared by the end of May in the same year. Dark Gentleman was acquired by... |
Textual Production | Louise Page | Four plays by LP
were collected in a volume entitled Plays: One, with her own introduction. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Nancy Cunard | In 1943 NC
began to work on collecting her poetry for an edition, as advised by Edward John Thompson
, a fellow political radical and poetry editor for Benn
publishers. The edition came to nothing... |
Textual Production | Roma White | In a novel set in Egypt and entitled Backsheesh, RW
presented an Englishman who marries an Islam
ic woman. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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. |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | CS
firmly denied writing D'Arcy: A Novel, hitherto listed as published at Dublin this year, in an edition bearing a version of her name. Recent scholarship indicates that she was telling the truth. This... |
Textual Production | Berta Ruck | BR
's Sir or Madam, published this spring, was one of her own favourites among her novels. The Bodleian Library
catalogue adds a question-mark to the title. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Todd, Janet, editor. British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide. Continuum, 1989. |
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