Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Library of Congress
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Lady Mary Wroth | Some early readers registered in their copies their dissatisfaction with the non-happy ending. The Library of Congress
copy bears a pencilled-in couplet addressed to readers, and the UCLA
copy a paragraph offering, in direct contradiction... |
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on composition, orchestration, and smaller works like cantatas and oratorios although she left most of these works unpublished, keeping them to herself. 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. |
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 | Muriel Spark | The book was not at the time published in the US or registered with the Library of Congress
. The result was a pirated edition, and largely for this reason MS
set about revising it... |
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 | 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. |
Reception | Margaret Mead | One later view of her early methods relates the intellectual controversies around her to her cultural context. It was heresy for anybody to dare to write her conclusions in a way that non-specialists could understand... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
Publishing | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | The book was reprinted in 1991 and a version of the 1845 Philadelphia edition is available online from the US Library of Congress
as part of their American Memory Collection. |
Publishing | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | This full text is available online from the Library of Congress
. |
Performance of text | Rumer Godden | RG
was critical of the distaste with which English writers Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
or Vita Sackville-West
had regarded their American lecture audiences. About her coast-to-coast tour with her husband she later wrote, I took... |
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... |
Timeline
: US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt donated her...
Writing climate item
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...
Building item
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.