Bodleian Library

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...

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. The body...

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 .

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...

MR set her next novel, The Looking Glass, in France at a similar period, the turn of the nineteenth century.

EU published with HeinemannThe Miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary, an anthology of translated fairytales of mediæval Catholicism .

RA 's novel of this year, Blue Danube, was again issued under the name of Eunice Buckley.

GC published a poetry volume, Letter from a Far Country, whose title poem had been first written for radio, and broadcast in 1978 as a half-hour programme.

PF published a novel of London theatre life, Ask Me No More: its three books are set in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.

Morris was writing too early to know of the existence of that splendid Oxford satirist Alicia D'Anvers , or to include in a section called Port and PrejudiceMary Jones 's early-eighteenth-century fantasy of a...

She dedicated it to H. R. L. S. (her husband) with the words If he will take it with my love. The epigraph reads En Somnii Explanatio (a phrase meaning this is the explanation...

The Bodleian copy is Vet. A 4 f. 438 (9). Harvard has recently acquired a copy of an otherwise unknown Dublin edition with a different title: A True Tale to be Added to Mr. Gay's...

From learning the Welsh language, CG moved on to studying its earlier form: what is now called Middle Welsh, together with medieval Welsh history and other literature dating from those years. From her researches sprang...

Cecily Mackworth published another biography, The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt, about an intrepid Victorian traveller in Arab lands.

WP published a novel of unusual form, They Come, They Go, The Story of an English Rectory, dedicated to a friend named Henry Jones .