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Publishing	Lucy Hutchinson	The editor of the first, lavishly-produced edition of this history recommended it particularly to female readers, as more entertaining than most novels. He also silently cut from it about 9,000 words, besides tinkering with the...
Publishing	Marie Corelli	This novel was released as a single volume costing six shillings, instead of the more traditional and expensive three-volume format. Mayer, Howard A. “Sorrows of Satan, The (Corelli)”. The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture, edited by George A. Cevasco, Garland Publishing, pp. 573-5. 573 Its full title was The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One...
Publishing	Rosemary Sutcliff	RS also published five adult historical novels, two of them during this decade: Lady in Waiting, 1956, and The Rider of the White Horse, 1959. For these she chose a different publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
Publishing	Eva Mary Bell	In 1918 EMB contributed to Eileen Mant 's A Letter to the Loyal Women of India, published in Bombay by Oxford University Press as number 8 in their War Pamphlets series. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing	Sarah Fielding	The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her...
Publishing	Sarah Fielding	She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz . It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix which SF was planning in October 1748, or that may have been something different that...
Publishing	Tabitha Tenney	TT dedicated her work to all Columbian Young Ladies who read Novels & Romances, and headed it with a Latin proverb translated as Learn to be wise by others harm, / and you shall do...
Publishing	Evelyn Sharp	It was only a few years since Miss Spark had provided moral backing for Sharp's determination to leave home and earn her own living. As well as appearing alone as number two in a series...
Publishing	Charlotte Lennox	In about 1773-4 CL planned a subscribers' edition with illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds , Francesco Bartolozzi , and Giovanni Battista Cipriani ; but this came to nothing. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 327 When an illustrated edition did appear...
Publishing	Angela Thirkell	About the time of her memoir Three Houses, AT showed some friends and acquaintances a draft fiction entitled Three Sillies. E. V. Lucas told her she had distinct talent although the typescript in...
Publishing	Elizabeth Gaskell	Despite the historical research, and setting aside later attention to getting dialect words exactly right, EG penned this work, says her biographer Jenny Uglow , page after page, without correction, Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, pp. 181-5. 181 in a fast-flowing hand...
Publishing	Angela Thirkell	Hamish Hamilton did not want this novel, so far outside her usual run, but Oxford University Press accepted it, and found that advance sales compelled them to reprint it even before publication. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth. 111
Publishing	Phebe Gibbes	The first edition of this novel, advertised for sale in May and priced at seven shillings and sixpence, is now extremely rare. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 473 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, p. xi - lvii. xix PG wrote it at a time when India—and specifically Calcutta—was...
Publishing	Flora Thompson	During the 1930s and 40s FT worked at several unpublished novels. She never submitted any to a publisher, but she struggled with Gates of Eden, as well as doing her work for the Peverel Society
Publishing	Joanna Cannan	High Table was reprinted in 1987 as one of Oxford University Press 's Twentieth-Century Classics, with an introduction by Anthony Quinton . Quinton remarks that Cannan's Oxford childhood gave her the best qualifications possible...

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Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Chandra, Sudhir. Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law, and Women’s Rights. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.

Chothia, Jean, editor. The New Woman and Other Emancipated Woman Plays. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Chowdhry, Prem. Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Clancy, Laurie. A Reader’s Guide to Australian Fiction. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Clark, Beverly Lyon, and Evelyn Sharp. “Introduction”. The Making of a Schoolgirl, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 3-23.

Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.

Clough, Arthur Hugh. The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. Editor Norrington, Arthur L. P., Oxford University Press, 1968.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poetical Works [of] Coleridge, including poems and versions of poems herein published for the first time. Editor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, Oxford University Press, 1969.

Coleridge, Sara, and Henry Reed. Sara Coleridge and Henry Reed. Editor Broughton, Leslie Nathan, Oxford University Press, 1937.

Connolly, S. J., editor. The Oxford Companion to Irish History. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Connors, Kathleen, and Sally Bayley, editors. Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Copeland, B. Jack. Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Codebreaking Computers. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Cotton, John et al. The Crystal Zoo. Oxford University Press, 1985.

Courtney, Janet E. The Adventurous Thirties: A Chapter in the Women’s Movement. Oxford University Press, 1937.

Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Craik, Dinah Mulock, and Cora Kaplan. Olive; and, The Half-Caste. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Culler, Jonathan, and Charles Baudelaire. “Introduction”. The Flowers of Evil, translated by. James McGowan and James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xix - xxix.

da Costa, Emilia Viotti. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Dalziel, Margaret, and Duncan Isles, editors. “Introduction, Chronology, and Appendix”. The Female Quixote, Oxford University Press, 1970.

David, Deirdre. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Davidson, Cathy N., and Tabitha Tenney. “Foreword”. Female Quixotism, edited by Jean Nienkamp et al., Oxford University Press, 1992, p. v - vii.

Davidson, Cathy N., and Hannah Webster Foster. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Coquette, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. vii - xxiv.