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Employer Elaine Feinstein
EF worked as an editor for Cambridge University Press , a job which, she said, taught her a great deal.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma.
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Literary responses Anne Finch
The poet Dilys Laing wryly asserted solidarity when in 1949 she addressed Finch in Sonnet to a Sister in Error, noting that women who slight the management of a servile house will themselves be...
Occupation Elaine Feinstein
EF began a three-year lectureship in English at Bishop's Stortford Training College , which she calls a paradise after Cambridge University Press .
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma.
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Publishing Elizabeth Strutt
The text was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Strutt, Elizabeth. A Spinster’s Tour in France. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Julia Kavanagh
In a brief note to the reader she reiterates the inseparability of the two parts of her project: writing on two inseparable literatures, English and French, and asserting the importance of women in the fiction...
Publishing Louisa Anne Meredith
This book was one of Murray 's Home and Colonial Library series.
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.
In the preface LAM explains that her motive for writing was to convey to her friends in England her impressions of the nature...
Publishing Mary Cowden Clarke
It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing C. E. Plumptre
The second volume also appeared anonymously, in 1879. In 1881 both volumes were reissued together by a different London publisher under the author's name. The work appeared at Birmingham in the year of original publication...
Publishing Alice Thornton
The editor named on this volume, C. J. (Charles Jackson ) took over the transcription, selection, and arrangement (to achieve a clearer chronological sequence, while claiming to retain everything of interest to readers) from...
Publishing Hannah Kilham
Her Report on a Recent Visit to the Colony of Sierra Leone is available on film in the series Women, Travel and Empire, 1660-1914 from Adam Matthew Publications , 1999. It was reissued by Cambridge University Press
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
On 8 March she inscribed a copy to D'Orsay's elder sister and her husband. The journey described in the work had been made through France to Italy: a happy time written up years later while...
Publishing Louisa Anne Meredith
In 1853 this was reprinted in the United States as My Home in Tasmania; or, Nine Years in Australia. It too was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format...
Publishing Frances Power Cobbe
This and the second volume were reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Cobbe, Frances Power. An Essay on Intuitive Morals. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Elizabeth Rigby
The book's many illustrations were by her own hand. Publisher John Murray paid her £100 for the copyright. A second edition appeared with the title Letters from the Shores of the Baltic. This text...
Publishing Elizabeth Fenton
Lawrence drew on the original journal held by EF 's daughter Flora McCulloch . In arranging and editing the text for publication, he unfortunately omitted most of her original interspersed poetry.
Lawrence, Sir Henry, and Elizabeth Fenton. “Preface”. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton, edited by Sir Henry Lawrence and Sir Henry Lawrence, Edward Arnold.
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The later...

Timeline

1534: Henry VIII granted a charter to Cambridge...

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1534

Henry VIII granted a charter to Cambridge University giving the right to set up a printing press: Cambridge University Press , the world's earliest surviving publishing house, printed its first book exactly fifty years later.

Probably 10 July 1748: Dorothea, Lady Bradshaigh, wrote her first...

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Probably 10 July 1748

Dorothea, Lady Bradshaigh , wrote her first letter to Samuel Richardson , signing herself Belfour.

By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...

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By 27 September 1905

Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young : The First Book of Geometry.

1907: Cambridge University Press published the...

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1907

Cambridge University Press published the first of fourteen volumes of the Cambridge History of English Literature by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller .

1911: Cambridge University Press published its...

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1911

Cambridge University Press published its eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

1923: The first issue of The Fleuron, a magazine...

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1923

The first issue of The Fleuron, a magazine devoted to the history and practice of typography, was published.

1951: Nikolaus Pevsner published the first three...

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1951

Nikolaus Pevsner published the first three titles in his Buildings of England series, an immensely knowledgeable gazetteer, county by county, of historic and other noteworthy structures.

1977: Maggie Ross wrote and Alan Maley edited Death...

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1977

Maggie Ross wrote and Alan Maley edited Death by Drowning, published by Cambridge University Press as a reader for the Cambridge English Language Learning programme.

4 July 1996: A Defamation Act of this date, repealing...

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4 July 1996

A Defamation Act of this date, repealing and amending earlier British acts, has been later attacked as inviting censorship by private interests: a sedition law for millionaires,
Monbiot, George. “The main threat to free speech is legal”. Guardian Weekly, p. 24.
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because of the huge figures exacted in...

Texts

Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
Adamson, John William. Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1905.
Hugo Aurelianensis, and Archipoeta. Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Translator Adcock, Fleur, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Aguilar, Grace. The Women of Israel. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Bacon, Anne. “Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon, edited by Gemma Allen, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 1-45.
Armytage, Walter Harry Green. Four Hundred Years of English Education. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 157-73.
Aston, Elaine, and Janelle Reinelt, editors. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Bacon, Anne. The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon. Editor Allen, Gemma, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Bailey, Peter. “’Naughty but nice’: musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892-1914”. The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage, edited by Michael R. Booth and Joel H. Kaplan, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 36-60.
Bales, Richard, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Proust. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Balfour, Clara. Sketches of English Literature, from the Fourteenth to the Present Century. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Banham, Martin, editor. Plays by Tom Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Barchas, Janine. Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Barker, Clive. “Theatre and society: the Edwardian legacy, the First World War and the inter-war years”. British Theatre between the Wars, 1918-1939, edited by Clive Barker and Maggie B. Gale, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 4-37.
Barrington, Emilie. G.F. Watts. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Battersby, Christine. “Her Blood and His Mirror: Mary Coleridge, Luce Irigaray, and the Female Self”. Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination, edited by Richard Eldridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 249-72.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Bennett, Susan. “Genre Trouble: Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Polack—tragic subjects, melodramatic subjects”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 215-32.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Through Spain to the Sahara. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.