Bodleian Library

Thomas James's will, proved in May 1710, did not leave EJ the library: he intended it to become a public library in its own right, under the title of the Jameson Society. Elinor, however, got...

Another aspect of Oxford presents itself through the hero's bumpkin servant John Blunder, who takes the guided tour. He is full of misapprehensions: that every building he sees is a church; that Queen's College is...

ADA 's immortal Sing-Song / How all th'old Dons were at it Ding-dong describes and exploits the annual university carnival of misrule which employed a licensed burlesque speaker. She drops, with cheerful irreverence, a...

The editors of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore see the defining characteristic of these private writings as their vitality, their passionate engagement with the world at large. The early letters are rich in...

CF is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe...

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 .

The more complete of these handsome manuscript volumes survives in the Bodleian Library as Rawlinson MS Poet 16, and was brought to the attention of scholars in 1931 by Nathan Comfort Starr . It bears...

IOF 's Industrial Women and How to Help Them, a pamphlet detailing the problems facing female textile workers, was published by the Humanitarian League .

Editor Fiona Robertson says that HK 's Report on a Recent Visit to the Colony of Sierra Leone, 1828, was preceded by a briefer report to the Committee of the Society of Friends for Promoting African Instruction

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...

AA privately issued a Memoir of her father , including some unpublished poetry by his father and himself.

Twenty-nine years after CG 's death, her son, Arthur Godley, Lord Kilbracken , privately printed her surviving letters, with illustrative plates, as the travel book Letters from Early New Zealand.

In 1883 the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published (under her real name) ML 's Carl Forrest's Faith, after she had submitted it to several publishers in vain. She dedicated it to Harold and...