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Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
One or more of her songs (original, not translated) appeared in The Daisy Chain, Twelve Songs of Childhood, published by Boosey in 1900. Various songs of hers have appeared separately, and as late as...
Publishing Ann, Lady Fanshawe
This edition included valuable biographical material, but was surpassed by that of John Loftis for Oxford University Press , 1979, which for the first time accurately reproduces the text of the British Library manuscript. It...
Textual Production Daisy Ashford
Some of DA 's early stories were reprinted posthumously in The Hangman's Daughter and other Stories, published by Oxford University Press .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
MA published another volume of poems, The Animals in That Country, this time with Oxford University Press in Toronto.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
MA published with Oxford University Press of Toronto her Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976-1986.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
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...
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.
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
This was first presented as a radio broadcast on the BBC on 4 May 1945, then published by Oxford University Press , which chose it as a token to send to American contacts for Christmas 1946.
Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris. Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography. University of Texas.
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Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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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...
Family and Intimate relationships Joanna Cannan
Charles Cannan of Oxford University Press , father of the writers May and JC , died.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
Employer Joanna Cannan
JC had early envisaged herself having a career as an artist, but her plans were disrupted by the First World War. In 1914 she joined the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) to work as a nurse...
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...
Occupation May Cannan
MC took a break from employment at Oxford University Press to work in the cafe at Rouen station, the last stop for British soldiers in France en route for Railhead and the Front.
Critic-biographer Charlotte Fyfe
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, p. Various pages.
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Timeline

1673: Richard Allestree (probably) published with...

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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...

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1710

Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through the university press the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland , Antiquary.

1850: John Wycliffe's complete Bible was printed...

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1850

John Wycliffe 's complete Bible was printed for the first time by Oxford University Press .

1 March 1879: James Murray was appointed editor of the...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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1900

Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford , 1693-1794 was first published.

1900: Oxford University Press published The Oxford...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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27 October 2005

Margaret Walters published Feminism: A Very Short Introduction in a popular series from Oxford University Press .

Texts

Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press.
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 1982.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press, 1956.
Adcock, Fleur. High Tide in the Garden. Oxford University Press, 1971.
Adcock, Fleur. Looking Back. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Adcock, Fleur. The Incident Book. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Adcock, Fleur. The Inner Harbour. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Adcock, Fleur. The Scenic Route. Oxford University Press, 1974.
Adcock, Fleur. Tigers. Oxford University Press, 1967.
Adcock, Fleur. Time-Zones. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Adrian, Arthur A. Georgina Hogarth and the Dickens Circle. Oxford University Press, 1957.
Kempe, Margery. “Prefatory Note”. The Book of Margery Kempe, edited by Hope Emily Allen et al., Oxford University Press, 1940, p. liii - lxviii.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Altick, Richard D. The Cowden Clarkes. Oxford University Press, 1948.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
Andrews, William L., and Mary Seacole. “Introduction”. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. xxvii - xxxiv.
Andrews, William L. et al., editors. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Anna Livia,. Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Anna Livia, and Kira Hall, editors. Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Arnold, Denis, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, 1983.