HSW
deposited at the Oxford Philosophical Library
her completed manuscript entitled A History of the Concept of Time, a survey of outstanding philosophers from the time of the Greeks onwards.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
400
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
285
She had...
Occupation
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Until 1929 she was an editor (and the only female editor) of the ten-volume Tudor Church Music, under the general editorship of Dr Percy Buck
and published by Oxford University Press
from 1922 to 1929.
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland.
She translated this poem not long after the deaths of two of her nephews in the second world war, and wrote to their mother: Just as Damon was Milton's camouflage for Charles Deodati
, so...
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worked at several unpublished novels.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
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....
Literary responses
Flora Thompson
Before publication, the US manager of Oxford University Press
had written to praise the book's amazing English quality of permanence and repose, and to enquire for information about the author.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale.
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....
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
73
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
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
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...
Textual Production
Mary Taylor
Oxford University Press
released a new edition of MT
's Miss Miles with an introduction by Janet Horowitz Murray
, who asserts the significance of this intensely felt and profoundly feminist novel
Murray, Janet Horowitz, and Mary Taylor. “Introduction”. Miss Miles; or, A Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxiv.
vii
of the nineteenth century.
Taylor, Mary, and Janet Horowitz Murray. Miss Miles; or, A Tale of Yorkshire life 60 Years Ago. Oxford University Press.
Textual Production
Rosemary Sutcliff
RS
published through Oxford University Press
her first book, written at the Press's suggestion: a version of traditional tales entitled The Chronicles of Robin Hood.
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.
Soon after the war, RS
began on a book designed for children, a retelling of a dozen or so Celtic and Saxon legends: stories of heroes like Beowulf, Cuchulain (whose stories she told more fully...
Timeline
1673: Richard Allestree (probably) published with...
1 March 1879: James Murray was appointed editor of the...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
1907: Oxford University Press sold its last copy...
Writing climate item
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...
1939: Peig Sayers published in Ireland her Machtnamh...
Women writers item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
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.
