Bodleian Library

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Anna Atkins
AA privately issued a Memoir of her father , including some unpublished poetry by his father and himself.
The Bodleian Library copy has an autograph letter from AA pasted in, dated 26 September.
Atkins, Anna, and John George Children. Memoir of J. G. Children, Esq. Privately printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons.
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Textual Production Charlotte Godley
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.
Dated from Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Miller, Harold. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Letters from Early New Zealand</span> by Charlotte Godley”. Political Science, Vol.
3
, No. 2, pp. 64-65.
65
Textual Production Mary Linskill
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...
Textual Production Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
The Headland, a stylistically experimental novel by CADS , was published by Heinemann
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Jane Warton
JW 's letters, which were much admired by her contemporaries, have not survived, though Joseph's letters to her are extant in the Bodleian Library .
Textual Production Sara Maitland
SM and Wendy Mulford together published Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings, a work of hagiography.
This is dated by the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Winifred Peck
WP published her second volume of memoirs (and her final book), Home for the Holidays, dedicated to Antonia, who read my proofs.
The date comes from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Peck, Winifred. Home for the Holidays. Faber and Faber.
prelims
Textual Production Anne Steele
Ten years after her death the first edition appeared of Verses for Children by AS . This is now known from two surviving copies, one in the Bodleian Library and one in the Steele Collection...
Textual Production Amelia Bristow
While AB 's dates and titles are a little uncertain, it seems that she claimed to have written work during the 1830s for The Christian Lady's Friend and Family Repository (probably Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrap Book...
Textual Production Margiad Evans
Margiad Evans entitled her second poetry collection—the last published work of her short career, acquired by the Bodleian Library on the last day of the year—A Candle Ahead.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(19 March 1958): 13
Textual Production P. D. James
The Bodleian (where James spoke several times and was photographed, and which presented her with its Bodley Medal in 2002) commissioned this book in December 2006.
Textual Production Susan Miles
SM published another book of poetry, entitled Annotations: the title is taken from Walter de la Mare , in a line that appears on the title-page.
Dated from stamp in the Bodleian Library copy.
Miles, Susan. Annotations. Oxford University Press.
title-page
Textual Production Mary Shelley
During this year MS was reading works by both her mother and her father, and many publications for children.
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span&gt”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 385-11.
388, 389-90
She tried hard to get her plays published. She submitted both in 1824 to...
Textual Production Rose Allatini
RA published with her name as R. Allatini, through Mills and Boon , her first novel, ". . . Happy Ever After".
This is dated by the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny
One year of Mary Champion de Crespigny's diary, that for the year 1791, survives in the Bodleian Library . Until recently, because of her odd habit of referring to her husband as Starke, it...

Timeline

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

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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...

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1840

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

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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25 November 1982

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

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