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Publishing Flora Annie Steel
This work is dedicated To the English girls to whom fate may assign the task of being house-mothers in Our Eastern Empire.
Hickman, Katie. Daughters of Britannia: The Life and Times of Diplomatic Wives. Flamingo.
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Steel and Gardiner called themselves on the title-page two twenty year's [sic]...
Publishing Flora Thompson
She submitted her work in fifteen chapters to Oxford University Press (no doubt for reasons of local loyalty), describing it as a fiction. Since the press did not deal with fiction they called it autobiography....
Publishing Olive Schreiner
Another collection of her letters, edited by Richard Rive with historical research done by Russell Martin , was published in 1987 in South Africa by David Philip , and world-wide in 1988 by Oxford University Press .
Publishing Elizabeth Elstob
The first of these works, dedicated to Caroline, Princess of Wales , is sometimes called the first grammar of Anglo-Saxon; in fact Elstob was preceded by her friend and patron George Hickes , who published...
Publishing Anne Sexton
AS 's Selected Poems was issued in England by Oxford University Press , whose editor Jon Stallworthy had approached her as a step in its campaign to challenge Faber and Faber for supremacy as the...
Publishing Anne Sexton
She was well on in assembling this collection in mid-June 1965.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin.
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She fought a battle with her US publisher, Houghton Mifflin , over a jacket she disliked, and secured instead the use of a...
Publishing Buchi Emecheta
After the very successful launch of The Bride Price, BE considered changing to a different publisher. She suspected that the small firm of Allison and Busby could not afford to publish any one author...
Publishing Thomas Hardy
TH 's single work for children (a story for boys), Our Exploits at West Poley, was serialised at Boston in The Household Magazine, and subsequently published by the Oxford University Press in 1952.
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press.
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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.
Publishing Flora Thompson
She worked on this second volume through various obstacles. In September 1939 she juggled her writing with making blackout curtains; then she and her husband moved house; and by summer 1940 there were bombers overhead....
Publishing Anne Sexton
Many of the poems had appeared in periodicals from about a year before this. Jon Stallworthy , who was offered the manuscript for Oxford University Press , was dubious about its quality and stipulated some...
Publishing H. D.
These appeared in London and New York from Oxford University Press (the first in 1944 and the second and third in 1945 and 1946 respectively). The first remains unlisted in the OCLC Worldcat.
Reception Katherine Philips
KP was never wholly forgotten. Alexander Dyce , anthologizing her in 1825, said her work was impregnated with thought.
Salzman, Paul. “How Alexander Dyce Assembled Specimens of British Poetesses: A Key Moment in the Transmission of Early Modern Women’s Writing”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 88-105.
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The late twentieth-century reawakening of interest in KP began with her poems of female friendship...
Reception Jane Austen
Modern criticism of Austen, now remarkably rich and varied, may be seen as having begun with a monograph by Mary Lascelles , Jane Austen and her Art, 1939, which was also the first to...
Reception Charlotte Dacre
Two new editions of Zofloya appeared in the same year, from Oxford University Press (World's Classics series) and Broadview Press .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Residence Susan Hill
Just before her elder daughter's first birthday, SH moved with her family from Stratford to Oxford, where her husband was appointed editor of the Oxford edition of Shakespeare .
Hill, Susan. Family. Michael Joseph.
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Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Davidson, Cathy N., and Linda Wagner-Martin, editors. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1995.
De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Editor Lindop, Grevel, Oxford University Press, 1985.
Dear, Ian C. B., and Michael Richard Daniell Foot, editors. The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Dearmer, Percy. Songs of Praise. Oxford University Press, 1960.
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Editor Landa, Louis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Demers, Patricia, and Robert Gordon Moyles, editors. From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children’s Literature to 1850. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. “Chacmool”. Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, edited by David Carrasco, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 168-9.
Dickens, Mary Angela. “An Idyll of an Omnibus”. Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Kate Flint, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 410-22.
Doughty, Oswald. A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Oxford University Press, 1960.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Drabble, Margaret. The Tradition of Women’s Fiction: Lectures in Japan. Editor Suga, Yakuko, Oxford University Press, 1985.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, 1978.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, 2002, p. xxi; 406 pp.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Edgeworth, Maria. Belinda. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Edmonds, Ennis. Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Old Manor House, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1969, p. v - xxx.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
Eliot, George, and Felicia Bonaparte. Middlemarch. Editor Carroll, David, Oxford University Press, 1997.