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Publishing Charlotte Lennox
In about 1773-4 CL planned a subscribers' edition with illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds , Francesco Bartolozzi , and Giovanni Battista Cipriani ; but this came to nothing.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 317-44.
327
When an illustrated edition did appear...
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 Elizabeth Gaskell
Despite the historical research, and setting aside later attention to getting dialect words exactly right, EG penned this work, says her biographer Jenny Uglow , page after page, without correction,
Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, pp. 181-5.
181
in a fast-flowing hand...
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 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...
Publishing Phebe Gibbes
The first edition of this novel, advertised for sale in May and priced at seven shillings and sixpence, is now extremely rare.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 473
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, p. xi - lvii.
xix
PG wrote it at a time when India—and specifically Calcutta—was...
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During the 1930s and 40s FT worked at several unpublished novels.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 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 Flora Annie Steel
This work is dedicated To the English girls to whom fate may assign the task of being house-mothers in Our Eastern Empire.
Hickman, Katie. Daughters of Britannia: The Life and Times of Diplomatic Wives. Flamingo.
9
Steel and Gardiner called themselves on the title-page two twenty year's [sic]...
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....
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 Elizabeth Elstob
The first of these works, dedicated to Caroline, Princess of Wales , is sometimes called the first grammar of Anglo-Saxon; in fact Elstob was preceded by her friend and patron George Hickes , who published...
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 Buchi Emecheta
After the very successful launch of The Bride Price, BE considered changing to a different publisher. She suspected that the small firm of Allison and Busby could not afford to publish any one author...
Publishing Thomas Hardy
TH 's single work for children (a story for boys), Our Exploits at West Poley, was serialised at Boston in The Household Magazine, and subsequently published by the Oxford University Press in 1952.
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press.
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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.

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Boswell, James, and John David Fleeman. Life of Johnson. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Oxford University Press, 1970.
Bowen, Elizabeth. Anthony Trollope: A New Judgement. Oxford University Press, 1946.
Bowen, Elizabeth. “The Mulberry Tree”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 37-51.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. John Marchmont’s Legacy. Editors Sasaki, Toru and Norman Page, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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.
Bridgman, Richard. Gertrude Stein in Pieces. Oxford University Press, 1970.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Briggs, Asa. The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. Oxford University Press, 1961.
Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Wuthering Heights</span>; Extract from the Prefatory Note to ’Selections from Poems by Ellis Bell’”. Wuthering Heights, edited by Professor Ian Jack and Professor Ian Jack, Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 359 - 65; 365.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Editor Jack, Professor Ian, Oxford University Press, 1981.
Burney, Frances. Camilla. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, Oxford University Press, 1972.
Burney, Frances. Cecilia. Editors Sabor, Peter and Margaret Anne Doody, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Haggard, Sir H. Rider. “Introduction”. King Solomon’s Mines, edited by Dennis Butts, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Byatt, A. S., editor. The Oxford Book of English Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Caine, Barbara. English Feminism, 1780-1980. Oxford University Press, 1997, http://U of G.
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Camfield, Gregg, editor. The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Cannan, Joanna. High Table. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Cannon, John, and Robert Crowcroft, editors. A Dictionary of British History. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Cannon, John, editor. The Oxford Companion to British History. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Joseph Neuberg, 1848-1862. Editor Scudder, Townsend, Oxford University Press, 1931.
Cather, Willa. Alexander’s Bridge. Editor Lindemann, Marilee, Oxford University Press, 1997.