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Family and Intimate relationships Kamila Shamsie
As a result of her work as a reviewer, Muneeza was approached by Oxford University Press to put together A Dragonfly in the Sun, an anthology of Pakistani literature written in English, commissioned for...
Family and Intimate relationships Kamila Shamsie
KS has one sister, Saman Shamsie , who is two years her senior.
Shamsie, Kamila. “Writers’ Holiday Photos: Postcards from My Past”. The Guardian.
She has named Saman as the person to whom she is closest.
Thorpe, Vanessa. “Kamila Shamsie: ‘Being a UK citizen makes me feel more able to take part in the conversation’”. The Guardian.
Saman graduated from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania in 1992, and...
Family and Intimate relationships Kamila Shamsie
KS 's maternal grandmother was memoirist Jahanara Habibullah . A relative of great poets and patrons of art and literature, Habibullah was educated in Persian, Arabic, and English in addition to her native Urdu.
Shamsie, Muneeza. “Discovering the Matrix”. Critical Muslim 4, edited by Robin Yassin-Kassab et al., C. Hurst & Co, pp. 165-76.
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Textual Production Kamila Shamsie
For inspiration, KS drew upon Remembrance of Days Past, a memoir written by her grandmother Jahanara Habibullah and circulated amongst the family. The work consisted of a collection of family history and anecdotes along...
Publishing Anne Sexton
Mindful that Jon Stallworthy of OUP had expressed increasing reservations about her work (he thought that celebrity status was damaging it), AS withdrew from Oxford and offered this volume for British publicaton to D. J. Enright
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.
240-1
She fought a battle with her US publisher, Houghton Mifflin , over a jacket she disliked, and secured instead the use of a...
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 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 Martin Ross
Edith Somerville , rising ninety, received the news that Oxford University Press was reprinting The Real Charlotte (by herself and MR ) in the World's Classics series.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR undertook more structured historical biography in her treatment with Richardson Evans of Lord Amherst and the British Advance Eastwards to Burma for the OxfordRulers of India series.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
290
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby married Vivian Ridler , although their wedding plans were much overshadowed by the international situation,
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
116
and the bridegroom had been given notice at Oxford University Press on account of his engagement.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
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Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 27. Gale Research.
27: 299
Textual Production Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR ) produced, on commission from Oxford University Press , her first anthology: a World's Classics selection of Shakespeare criticism since the end of the First World War.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
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Textual Production Anne Ridler
AR published her first volume of Poems with Oxford University Press (thanks, she said, to her uncle Humphrey Milford and to Charles Williams ).
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
122
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
80: 358
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Ridler
Humphrey Milford , of Oxford University Press , was AR 's uncle; he and Anne's mother were very close.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
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Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. The Doctor’s Wife. Editor Pykett, Lyn, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Brewer, Charlotte. “’A Goose Quill or a Gander’s?’: Female Writers in Johnson’s Dictionary”. Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Dictionary</span>, edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 120-39.
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Cather, Willa. Alexander’s Bridge. Editor Lindemann, Marilee, Oxford University Press, 1997.