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Travel Celia Fiennes
With time her journeys became more ambitious, and she rode a horse instead of using a coach. In about 1694 she was at Oxford, where like other tourists she printed my name severall tymes...
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...
Textual Production Jan Morris
Having already edited for Oxford University Press an anthology on Oxford, one of her shaping places, JM began her writing on Wales by editing The Small Oxford Book of Wales and collaborating with illustrator Paul Wakefield
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 Eleanor Farjeon
EF published in the USA a book of legends for children, entitled Ten Saints; London publication followed in 1953 from Oxford University Press .
British Book News. British Council.
(1953): 686-7
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 Dora Carrington
Carrington provided five illustrations for a school edition of Don Quixote by Cervantes , published by the Oxford University Press .
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
Oxford University Press published Edward Thomas , The Last Four Years. Book One of the Memoirs of Eleanor Farjeon.
British Book News. British Council.
(1958): 820
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.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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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/.
Textual Production Rosemary Sutcliff
RS published her second book, The Queen Elizabeth Story, through Oxford University Press , which advertised it as summer reading for children and young people.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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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...
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 Jo Shapcott
JS published her second poetry volume, Phrase Book, with Oxford University Press , with an epigraph from Miroslav Holub .
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Shapcott, Jo. “Women’s Poetry Competition 2005”. Mslexia, Vol.
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Shapcott, Jo. Her Book: Poems 1988-1998. Faber and Faber.
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Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
They were reprinted in 1959 by Oxford University Press .

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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.