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Travel Angela Thirkell
She hated New York (a nasty, paltry . . . negligeable place) but loved Boston (where her old-fashioned hostess, Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton , seemed to her a wonderful remnant of the Flowering...
Textual Production Richmal Crompton
RC 's last adult novel, The Inheritor, was published in her sixty-ninth year, and dedicated to her niece Sarah Lamburn .
Dated from the Library of Congress acquisition stamp.
Williams, Kay. Just Richmal. Genesis.
202
Textual Production Ethel Lilian Voynich
In New York City, ELV focused her musical energies on composition, orchestration, and smaller works like cantatas and oratorios although she left most of these works unpublished, keeping them to herself.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, pp. 876-7.
877
Ethel L. Voynich papers, 1928-1948. http://www.findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.music.eadmus.mu010020&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=bioghist.
She also...
Textual Production Nancy Cunard
NC 's papers are held at the Universities of Texas and Southern Illinois , and the Library of Congress . Scholar Jane Marcus notes in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography that her unpublished papers...
Textual Production Anita Desai
AD published Journey to Ithaca, a novel classified by the American Library of Congress as religious fiction: its title alludes to the hero's homeward journey in Homer 's Odyssey.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4809 (2 June 1995): 20
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
271
Textual Production Charlotte Forman
They were carried in the Morning Chronicle, the St. James Chronicle, the Public Advertiser, and the General Evening Post. Scholar Joel J. Gold considers their attribution to CF as likely, but...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
Several known plays by EI were never published. All on a Summer's Day, 1787 (about a couple ill-matched in age), and The Hue and Cry, 1791, are known only from the copies provided...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
The Library of Congress holds a collection of her papers. Eleven letters from her are included among Letters in Winifred Holtby 's Collected In-mail
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Charlotte McCarthy
It was printed for the Author. Copies survive at the Library of Congress , Huntington Library , and Boston Public Library . Biographia Dramatica calls it a performance, though the text states that it...
Textual Production Margaret Mead
MMholds the civilian record for the largest collection of papers at the Library of Congress . Her red cape and her walking-stick are preserved and displayed at the Hall of the Pacific Peoples in...
Textual Production Hannah Arendt
HA 's papers are mostly held by the Library of Congress , with thought books which gathered material for published works, and some correspondence, at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv at Marburg in Germany.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press.
xlvii, xlviii
Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
The Library of Congress now holds Millay's major archive of letters, notebooks, manuscripts, and photographs. Other papers are held by Yale University and the New York Public Library .
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
513
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Textual Production Maria Barrell
The dedication is signed Maria Barrell, though the title-page renders this in at least some copies as Maria Arrell.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Scholar Janet Todd notes that MB focused on the issue of imprisonment for debtors and...
Textual Production Mary Peisley
A second edition followed the same year. A Philadelphia reprint of 1796 does not appear in the English Short Title Catalogue, but the Library of Congress holds a microfilm of it.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Textual Production Eva Mary Bell
EMB published her final novel, Taking a Liberty (set exclusively in England: London, especially Strand-on-the-Green, with a crucial scene at Chanctonbury Ring in West Sussex, site of an Iron Age hill fort). Her...

Timeline

: US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt donated her...

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Spring1938

US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt donated her book collection, as a gift from the National American Woman Suffrage Association , to the Library of Congress .

5 December 1942: The word Holocaust (which originally meant...

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5 December 1942

The word Holocaust (which originally meant an animal sacrifice entirely consumed by fire) was used as a headline in the News Chronicle for a newsitem about the Nazi mass murder of Jews.

1968-84: The new Preservation Microfilming Office...

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1968-84

The new Preservation Microfilming Office at the Library of Congress filmed 93 million pages (300,000 volumes of books, besides newspapers); the volumes themselves were destroyed.

19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...

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19 February 2007

Sarah Thomas , an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University 's Bodleian Library (opened on 8 November 1602).

Texts

Catalogue of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. Library of Congress, 1945.