British Library Catalogue.
Oxford University Press
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Claire Keegan | CK
has had stories included in collections such as Birthday Stories, edited by Haruki Murakami
, 2004; Scéalta: Short Stories by Irish Women, edited by Rebecca O'Connor
, 2006; Loved Ones, 2006... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an English gentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was... |
Dedications | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
published her second poetry collection, Venus and the Rain, dedicated to her mother and in memory of her mother-in-law, with Oxford University Press
. |
Dedications | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
published On Ballycastle Beach, her third poetry collection, dedicated to her aunts and uncles, with Oxford University Press
in association with Wake Forest University Press
in the United States. Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962. 143 McGuckian, Medbh. On Ballycastle Beach. Gallery Press, 1995. prelims |
Employer | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement
at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was... |
Employer | Jennifer Dawson | JD
worked in publishing for the Clarendon Press
(an imprint of Oxford University Press
). Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Guttridge, Peter. “Obituary: Jennifer Dawson”. The Independent. |
Employer | Joanna Cannan | |
Employer | May Cannan | MC
went back to work at Oxford University Press
, at the invitation of R. W. Chapman
, helping on the weekly Oxford Magazine. Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, 2000, p. Various pages. 141-2 |
Employer | Deborah Moggach | DM
's first job after her BA was as a librarian at Oxford University Press
, 1970-72. While in Pakistan she worked as a teacher and also did freelance writing during 1972-74. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Employer | May Cannan | Instead, MC
and her sisters went to work as volunteers at Oxford University Press
, working for their father
in the place of men who had enlisted in the army. The production of OUP's general... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby
married Vivian Ridler
, although their wedding plans were much overshadowed by the international situation, Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp. 116 Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp. 114-15 Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 27. Gale Research, 1980. 27: 299 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alicia D'Anvers | Her father, Samuel Clarke, a former Beadle of Law and first director of printing at Oxford University Press
(architypographus), died when his daughter Alice was still a toddler. He was celebrated for his... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | Humphrey Milford
, of Oxford University Press
, was AR
's uncle; he and Anne's mother were very close. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Cannan | Charles Cannan
of Oxford University Press
, father of the writers May
and JC
, died. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Charles Cannan |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Cannan | Her father, Charles Cannan
, was an academic whose subject was classics. Having been a Fellow for twelve years before Joanna was born, he also became Dean of Trinity College, Oxford
, and in 1898... |
Timeline
1673
Richard Allestree
(probably) published with Oxford University PressThe Ladies Calling, a religiousconduct book which became well-known and influential.
1710
Oxford
scholar Thomas Hearne
published through the university press
the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland
, Antiquary.
1850
1 March 1879
James Murray
was appointed editor of the new Oxford English Dictionary; soon afterwards he sent out 2,000 copies of a four-page invitation to volunteer readers who would collect words.
1 February 1884
The first section (A-Ant) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, also known as the Oxford English Dictionary, was published.
1899
Oxford University Press
printed the Yattendon Hymnal, edited by Robert Bridges
and H. Ellis Wooldridge
.
1900
Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford
, 1693-1794 was first published.
1900
Oxford University Press
published The Oxford Book of English Verse, selected and edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
.
1907
Oxford University Press
sold its last copy of Wilkins
' Coptic New Testament, printed in 1716 and believed to have been on sale continuously at its original price.
1939
Oxford University Press
published the first edition of Theodore Besterman
's A World Bibliography of Bibliographies.
1939
Peig Sayers
published in Ireland her Machtnamh seana-mhná (whose title is here transliterated from Irish script, as it is in the British Library
catalogue).
1993
Following the Net Book Agreement, Random House
became the first publisher in Britain to install an automated packing line in warehousing at Tiptree in Essex. Though it was not a success, this did not...
27 October 2005
Margaret Walters
published Feminism: A Very Short Introduction in a popular series from Oxford University Press
.