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Literary responses | Jane Johnson | Barbara
and George Johnson took Vast Delight in hearing [this story] told over & over. C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol. 16 , No. 2, pp. 165-8. 166 C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol. 16 , No. 2, pp. 165-8. 165 |
Literary responses | Jemima Tautphoeus | JT
's fiction received mixed reviews during her life. A Mrs Marie Barrett-Lennard
of Sevenoaks went to some trouble to locate copies of her books in the late 1920s, when one might have supposed her... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
published the last of her novels before her conversion to Catholicism, Shepherds in Sackcloth: the Bodleian Library
copy is one of 250 which she signed. Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 90 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1459 (16 January 1930): 45 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Agnes Strickland | For this book Agnes did research in the Bodleian Library
and in Lambeth Palace library. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 274, 276 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Philip Larkin | He had spent two terms during 1970-1 reading poetry in the Bodleian
(and copying and re-reading potential choices). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
names | Medora Gordon Byron | Miss Byron is the form in which this writer's name appears on all the books ascribed to her except three bearing the pseudonym A Modern Antique. Bibliographer Dorothy Blakey
called the author of both... |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | An anonymous author, apparently the country apothecary Cudworth Bruch
, celebrated the memory of LMWM
in The Triumph of Inoculation; a Dream. His name appears in manuscript on the title-page of the Bodleian Library |
Occupation | Sally Purcell | SP
lived by an odd combination of freelance, low-paying jobs. In her editor's words, Oxford allowed her to scrape a living on its fringes, not always congenially. Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, pp. 19-24. 20 |
Occupation | Flora Annie Steel | During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute
(whose earliest... |
Occupation | Anna Trapnel | She lay in bed in a trance for the ten months from October 1657 to August 1658, uttering prophecies which were written down and survive as a printed work in the Bodleian Library
. |
Occupation | William Godwin | WG
's diary, begun on 4 April 1788 and kept until a fortnight before his death, consists largely of names and the barest of facts. Nevertheless it forms a valuable record of the movements of... |
Occupation | Mary More | MM
was a portrait-painter and copyist, who left paintings in her family. The only one of her visual works known to survive, heavily retouched, hangs in the Bodleian Library
in Oxford. It was thought to... |
Author summary | Enid Blyton | EB
was probably the most prolific and successful children's writer of the twentieth century. In three decades she produced more than four hundred titles: picture-books for small children, fairy stories, adventure stories, school stories, fantasy... |
Author summary | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire... |
Publishing | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes believed this work to be by SH
. He also noted that a section added to it in 1688 in a form then titled The Sacrifice of a devout Christian was identified by... |
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