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Publishing Sarah Fielding
The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz . It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli.
xxxix
which SF was planning in October 1748, or that may have been something different that...
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...
Publishing Evelyn Sharp
It was only a few years since Miss Spark had provided moral backing for Sharp's determination to leave home and earn her own living. As well as appearing alone as number two in a series...
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 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 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...
Occupation May Cannan
MC took a break from employment at Oxford University Press to work in the cafe at Rouen station, the last stop for British soldiers in France en route for Railhead and the Front.
Critic-biographer Charlotte Fyfe
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.
520
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora.
14
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
143-4
After publication FT received...
Literary responses Elizabeth Jenkins
The earliest reviews, said EJ , were not encouraging and some were both tepid and denigratory . . . because [the reviewers] felt it was a dead bore to have to read about Jane Austen...

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Ellis, Kenneth. The Post Office in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Administrative History. Oxford University Press, 1958.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Evans, S. C., and Hallie Q. Brown. “Mrs. Mary Ann Shadd Cary”. Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction, Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 92-6.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
Mary, Lady Chudleigh,. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xvii - xxxvi.
Farjeon, Eleanor. Edward Thomas. Oxford University Press, 1958.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and Edward Ardizzone. Italian Peepshow. Oxford University Press, 1960.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and Helen Sewell. Ten Saints. Oxford University Press, 1936.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and Edward Ardizzone. The Little Bookroom. Oxford University Press, 1955.
Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna, and Max Hayward. Selected Poems [of] Marina Tsvetayeva. Translator Feinstein, Elaine, Oxford University Press, 1971.
Fielding, Sarah, and Jill E. Grey. The Governess. Oxford University Press, 1968.
Flint, Kate, editor. “Introduction”. Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. vii - vix.
Flint, Kate, editor. Victorian Love Stories. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. ix - lxxxii.
Foster, Hannah Webster. The Coquette. Editor Davidson, Cathy N., Oxford University Press, 1986.
Foster, John Wilson. Irish Novels 1890-1940. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - lvii.
Freeman-Grenville, Greville Stewart Parker. Chronology of African History. Oxford University Press, 1973.
Fuller, John, editor. The Oxford Book of Sonnets. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Gagnier, Regenia. Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Gardiner, Dorothy Kempe. English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women’s Education Through Twelve Centuries. Oxford University Press, 1929.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Introduction to the Third Edition”. Poems, edited by W. H. Gardner et al., Oxford University Press, 1956, p. xiii - xxvi.
Garland, Henry, and Mary Garland, editors. The Oxford Companion to German Literature. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000.