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...
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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Fictionalization
Margaret Catchpole
Richard Cobbold
, son of Elizabeth Cobbold
, and rector of Wortham, published a fictionalised treatment of MC
's life in 1845 entitled The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. It was...
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...
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...
Textual Features
Alicia D'Anvers
Another aspect of Oxford presents itself through the hero's bumpkin servant John Blunder, who takes the guided tour. He is full of misapprehensions: that every building he sees is a church; that Queen's College
is...
ED
followed this in 1932, 1933, and 1934, with Verses: Second Book, Verses: Third Book, and Verses: Fourth Book, all published by Oxford University Press
.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
She was also a teacher (at a convent at Laval in France before she went into publishing),
Guttridge, Peter. “Obituary: Jennifer Dawson”. The Independent.
a social worker...
Textual Production
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Oxford University Press
published KKD
's doctoral thesis, revised as A Various Universe: A Study of the Journals and Memoirs of British Men and Women in the Indian Subcontinent, 1765-1856.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, p. xxi; 406 pp.
title-page, vii
Textual Production
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
KKD
began translating from Bengali to English in the 1960s, while she was still studying at Oxford
. In 1964 her first translation was published in Poetry Ireland: a poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore