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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anne Finch | Anne Kingsmill (later AF
) is now suspected to have written the libretto for John Blow
's masque Venus and Adonis, composed during the reign of Charles II
and now sometimes called the first... |
Textual Production | Ann Fisher | AF
's little manuals for the teaching of English were so popular and so heavily used in schools that few copies have survived. A later-edition title-page of what appears to be her earliest extant text,... |
Textual Production | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
's Industrial Women and How to Help Them, a pamphlet detailing the problems facing female textile workers, was published by the Humanitarian League
. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. 46 |
Textual Production | Margaret Forster | MF
published Hidden Lives, A Family Memoir, with family photos, a map of central Carlisle (accurate any time up to the 1950s), and endpapers of Carlisle Central Market about 1910. Dated from the Bodleian Library |
Textual Production | Mrs E. M. Foster | Jaquelina tells a version of historical events. Jacquelina, Countess of Hainault
, had made a dynastic marriage when very young, repudiated her husband, and fled to England before, by early 1423, she married Humphry, Duke of Gloucester |
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... |
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. Grace, Lady Gethin,. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Frances, Lady Norton, Printed by D. Edwards for the author. A3r |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | The last of JF
's art books was The Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton, in two huge folio volumes in white vellum covers patterned with gilt art-nouveau-style decoration. Dated from the acquisition stamp in... |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | JF
published a new Frank Danby novel, Pigs in Clover, after a break of fifteen years (during which her children were growing up). Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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. |
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. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Pamela Frankau | PF
began publishing in serial form a work based on her own life, entitled Letters from a Modern Daughter to her Mother: it appeared in book form in earlier 1931. The volume's publication date... |
Textual Production | Pamela Frankau | The government publication Food Facts for the Kitchen Front appeared, with a foreword by Lord Woolton
, the Minister of Food: PF
called this her only authentic, though unsigned, best-seller. Publication date is given from... |
Textual Production | Pamela Frankau | PF
published a novel of London theatre life, Ask Me No More: its three books are set in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. This is dated from the acquisition stamp in the Bodleian Library
copy. British Book News. British Council. (1959): 72 |
Publishing | Maggie Gee | Reviewing Adrian Berry
's science-prediction book The Next 500 Years gave her the idea for this novel, and reading about film structure gave her its shape. She wrote it in six months; the result pleased... |
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 |
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