Bodleian Library

Connections

Connections Sort ascending Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
Though the printed sheet bears no name, a manuscript note in the British Library copy identifies it as by EPW . A copy appears as the final item in the Bodleian Library 's composite volume...
Textual Production Elizabeth Burnet
EB 's papers survive among various collections in the Bodleian and British Libraries .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Margaret Roberts
MR , as the author of Mademoiselle Mori, published her last novel (though not her last book), Niccolina Niccolini.
This is dated by the acquisition stamp in the Bodleian Library copy.
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 Joanna Trollope
Thirty-eight authors participated, donating their work to raise money for Oxfam. Each volume reflects an aspect of the charity's work. They were featured at the Oxfam Bookfest (which began in July 2009, the first of...
Textual Production Rose Allatini
RA 's novel of this year, Blue Danube, was again issued under the name of Eunice Buckley.
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 Gillian Clarke
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.
This volume is dated by the Bodleian Library
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
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
The former Gladys Mendl, now GHS , first used a new pseudonym, Henrietta Leslie, on a novel called Where Runs the River?, published by J. M. Dent .
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Pandora Press issued On Gender and Writing, a collection of essays by women and men edited by MW .
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Wandor, Michelene. Five Plays. Journeyman.
prelims
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
Marguerite Barclay (the future HB ) published as Oliver Sandys a novel entitled Chicane, one of whose leading characters is a woman swindler.
This is dated from the Anglican Church acquisition stamp.
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.
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.
Textual Production Elizabeth Daryush
Though its title includes the figure 1911, it was published (by Bowes and Bowes of Cambridge) in 1912. The British Library , the Bodleian Library , and Cambridge University Library boast copies. It is clearly extremely rare.
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton published with Jonathan Cape another novel, Folly's Handbook.
The Bodleian Library copy is date-stamped 15 June 1927.
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
(1927): 324
Textual Production Cecily Mackworth
Cecily Mackworth published Spring's Green Shadow, which remained her only novel for exactly forty years.
Dated from Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman.
130
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited.
Textual Production Frances Mary Peard
FMP published Alicia Tennant, the story of a young woman brought up so dutiful and biddable that she is unable to go against the wishes of her elders, even when her happiness is at...

Timeline

1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...

Women writers item

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.

1840: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented...

Building item

1840

Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented the calotype system of photography.

15 September 1870: Following the proclamation on the 4th of...

National or international item

15 September 1870

Following the proclamation on the 4th of September of the French Third Republic, the Prussian army besieged Paris.

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

Women writers item

1881

A religiousnovel 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 Christian Susanna Meredith .

By September 1887: William Walker published at Aberdeen The...

Writing climate item

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...

Writing climate item

1895

Falconer Madan , librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, published two important studies of printing presses.

25 March 1901: Sarah Angelina Acland, pioneer of colour...

Building item

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...

Women writers item

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.

31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...

National or international item

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...

By 28 November 1934: The young Flora Robson, in A Letter to a...

Building item

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...

Writing climate item

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...

National or international item

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...

National or international item

18 September 1961

Dag Hammarskjöld , Secretary-General of the United Nations , was killed in a plane crash near Ndola in the then Northern Rhodesia

: Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published...

Writing climate item

Spring1965

Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published at Merthyr Tydfil, partly in order to allow English-language poets to contribute to the revitalised nationalist culture of the period.

25 November 1982: Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology...

Women writers item

25 November 1982

Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.