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Textual Production Mary Astell
It is in a volume now numbered Rawlinson MS. poet. 154 in the Bodleian Library .
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press.
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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AA privately issued a Memoir of her father , including some unpublished poetry by his father and himself.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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Publishing Jane Austen
Volume the Third was bought by the British Library . The incomplete manuscript of The Watsons was bought at this sale by a private buyer who placed it on deposit at Queen Mary and Westfield College
Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
RMA published her first novel, Castles in Spain, which, like her later works, she attributed to the fact that, with a husband out at work all day and no children, she had plenty of...
Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
Four years after her first novel, RMA issued the first of her nearly 140 titles published in a highly successful working relationship with Hodder and Stoughton , Richard Chatterton, V.C..
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
RMA 's novel Wynne of Windwhistle followed another familiar romance pattern: of the hero who at first appears an ogre but is revealed to be good and loving.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
In Life Steps InRMA departed from her common practice, producing a romantic novel of star-crossed love instead of her usual happy ending.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
Forty-one years after the appearance of her first novel, RMA issued her last, Love Without Wings. Dark Gentleman had appeared by the end of May in the same year.
Dark Gentleman was acquired by...
Textual Production Louisa Baldwin
LB , as Mrs. Alfred Baldwin, published Afterglow, a collection of poems not primarily directed at children.
Publication is dated from the accession stamp in the Bodleian Library copy.
Baldwin, Louisa. Afterglow. Methuen.
prelims
Textual Production Mary Barber
The Bodleian copy is Vet. A 4 f. 438 (9). Harvard has recently acquired a copy of an otherwise unknown Dublin edition with a different title: A True Tale to be Added to Mr. Gay's...
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
HB used her favourite pseudonym of Oliver Sandys for her biography of her late husband: Caradoc Evans, dedicated to his wayward spirit; she signed the dedication Marguerite.
Dated from the Bodleian acquisition stamp.
Barcynska, Hélène. Caradoc Evans. Hurst and Blackett.
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Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
HB turned to a different publisher for her second autobiographical volume, Unbroken Thread: an Intimate Journal of the Daily Life in the Welsh Countryside of England's Best-loved Woman Novelist.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
HB published a third volume of memoirs, The Miracle Stone of Wales, a semi-mystical work which is classified in the catalogue of the Bodleian Library as mental healing.
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Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
One of the earliest joint publications by Marguerite and Armiger Barclay was an anonymous sentimental novel which the Bodleian Library catalogue dates 1910, tentatively but improbably, since they did not marry till 1911. It is...
Publishing Hélène Barcynska
On the title-page of Pretty Dear MB's pseudonym is The Countess Barcynska with an accent on the n of Barcynska. Its spring publication is mentioned in a list of new Hurst and Blackett books bound...

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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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