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...
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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...
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Eleanor Farjeon
One spur to this late work was Farjeon's indignation at a BBC
radio programme in 1953 about Thomas, which was repeated despite her protest after the first broadcast. The programme maintained that she had been...
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...
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Buchi Emecheta
These two titles were followed by The Moonlight Bride and The Wrestling Match, both commissioned by Oxford University Press
to be published (April 1981) for school-children in West Africa. The Wrestling Match has been...
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Elizabeth Elstob
These 36 pages in folio, printed at Oxford University Press
, survive in the British Library
. This fragment, like the sample single homily, has parallel texts: the original Anglo-Saxon and EE
's modern English.The...
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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...
Oxford University Press
published KKD
's doctoral thesis, revised as A Various Universe: A Study of the Journals and Memoirs of British Men and Women in the Indian Subcontinent, 1765-1856.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, p. xxi; 406 pp.
title-page, vii
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Ketaki Kushari Dyson
KKD
began translating from Bengali to English in the 1960s, while she was still studying at Oxford
. In 1964 her first translation was published in Poetry Ireland: a poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore
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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
She was also a teacher (at a convent at Laval in France before she went into publishing),
Guttridge, Peter. “Obituary: Jennifer Dawson”. The Independent.
a social worker...
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