Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 | |
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.