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Employer Maya Angelou
In 1966 she was appointed as a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles , and there followed a string of academic appointments as writer in residence or visiting professor: at the University of Kansas
Textual Production Mary Collyer
This may well have been written out of financial need.
Immel, Andrea. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>A Christmass-Box</span>. Mary Homebred and Mary Collyer: Connecting the Dots”. Children’s Books History Society Newsletter, No. 94, pp. 1-4.
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The copy surviving at UCLA spent more than two centuries in the Ludford Box, a family collection of children's books from several eighteenth-century...
Textual Production Edith Craig
The EC archives are housed at the Ellen Terry Memorial Museum at Tenterden in Kent. The collection includes prompt copies of plays by Paul Claudel and Charlotte Perkins Gilman .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
235
UCLA also holds...
Textual Production Helen Craik
OCLC lists only two surviving copies of this work, at UCLA and Wesleyan University .
Employer Buchi Emecheta
She held visiting academic appointments the University of Calabar in Nigeria, and at a number of US universities including Pennsylvania State , Rutgers , UCLA , and Yale .
Busby, Margaret. “Buchi Emecheta obituary”. theguardian.com.
Reception Buchi Emecheta
In the same year she was invited to be a Visiting Professor at USn universities including Pennsylvania State University , the University of California at Los Angeles , and the University of Illinois at...
Publishing Eliza Fenwick
This was illustrated with woodcuts. Copies were sold already coloured, or (more cheaply at one shilling) for the child-owners to colour themselves. Tabart advertised this title in several other books, including EF 's Visits to...
Material Conditions of Writing Antonia Fraser
She had done much of the work for this while at UCLA in Los Angeles in autumn 1985.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
182
Translations into Dutch and Spanish were quickly published at Baarn and Buenos Aires. Some reprints...
Reception Sarah Grand
At her death, SG left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall , daughter of Haldane McFall .
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press.
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Her letters and papers are now...
Textual Production Susannah Gunning
The title-page of this initially three-volume work calls the authors the Miss Minifies of Fairwater in Somersetshire—thus linking their identity with their rank.
Gunning, Susannah, and Margaret Minifie. The Histories of Lady Frances S—,— and Lady Caroline S——. R. and J. Dodsley.
title-page
The long subscription list includes Frances Boscawen , Jonas Hanway
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
It was published at Dublin in 1789, and held the stage well during the early nineteenth century: October-November 1824 saw two rival productions at different theatres. Dickens directed the production of a much-revised version in...
Textual Production Anna Brownell Jameson
Anna Brownwell Murphy (later ABJ ) published A First or Mother's Dictionary for Children. If this date is correct, her first job as a governess had just ended.
It is the Osborne Collection and...
Textual Production Anna Brownell Jameson
The book's full title was A First or Mother's Dictionary for Children:containing upwards of three thousand eight hundred words which occur most frequently in books and conversation: simply and familiarly explained, and interspersed throughout with...
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The full title is The West-Indian; or, Anecdotes of the Somerville Family: on Various Subjects, Designed for the Amusement and Instruction of Youth. Published by Henry Mozley (father of the writer Anne Mozley )...
Travel Julia O'Faolain
JOF 's studies at Chambéry, Rome, Paris, Venice, and Perugia had given her a taste for life in other countries. She and her family spent four years in Portland, Oregon...

Timeline

29 November 1969: ARPAnet, the Internet's precursor, established...

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29 November 1969

ARPAnet, the Internet's precursor, established its first link between UCLA and Stanford (after an earlier attempt when the system crashed). By early December it was connecting computers between those two, UC Santa Barbara , and...

1972: E-mail, based on programmes developed by...

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1972

E-mail, based on programmes developed by Ray Tomlinson , was incorporated into ARPAnet. Tomlinson inaugurated the name-and-domain name convention, which, despite contentions, became widely adopted in the eighties as e-mail use proliferated.

1974: African American activist Angela Davis published...

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1974

African American activist Angela Davis published Angela Davis: An Autobiography.

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