OCLC WorldCat.
National Library of Scotland
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Another relation with whom she became friendly on this trip, William Dickson
, visited JFLW
in the mid 1870s with his sons, of whom the elder, then in his teens, was William Kirk Dickson
... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Margaret Sackville | She was one of the circle of artists and intellectuals that gathered at the home of artist John Duncan
(Celtic revivalist and Symbolist), and she was the acknowledged queen (though guest queen) of the unique... |
politics | Mary Howitt | MH
's devotion to women's causes lasted her life through. Around 29 January 1879 something moved her to declare her allegiance on a sheet of paper now in the National Library of Scotland
: I... |
Publishing | Edith Mary Moore | Her full name (Edith Mary Croucher Moore) appears in connection with this book in OCLC WorldCat though not on its title-page. Cassell
advertised it in the TLS repeatedly until early June, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. (14 January 1909): 11; (3 June 1909): 205; (10 June 1909): 213 |
Publishing | Edith Mary Moore | Again Cassell
placed advertisements in the TLS, but only for a couple of weeks this time. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. (21 October 1909): 389 |
Reception | Felicia Skene | Although FS
is not widely known today, some of her books have been reprinted in the last twenty years. A selection of her work is available online from the Victorian Women Writers Project
. Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University. |
Reception | Willa Muir | |
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, 1983. 334-5, 100 |
Reception | Frances Browne | Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund
survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland
has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland
holds several... |
Textual Production | Alison Cockburn | AC
's papers are held by the National Library of Scotland
. |
Textual Production | Helen Craik | This manuscript is National Library of Scotland
MS 86. It was privately Printed not Published at Philadelphia in 1914. |
Textual Production | Edith Mary Moore | A novel entitled A Wilful Widow, which appeared in 1913, is evidently by EMM
. Difficulties with George Allen
had apparently caused her to change publishers (for the second time) to Constable
. The... |
Textual Production | Lady Margaret Cunningham | Her fuller title was A Parte of the Life of Lady Margaret Cunningham Daughter to the Earle of Glencairn yt [sic] she had with her first husband the Master of Evandale. When she wrote... |
Textual Production | Alison Fell | AF
began the diaries which she later sold to the National Library of Scotland
, in which she writes about her experience in journalism and with women's groups. “Inventory. Acc. 12394. Alison Fell”. National Library of Scotland. |
Textual Production | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | The National Library of Scotland
and the National Record Office, Scotland
, each holds some of COLN
's letters and songs. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Timeline
1508
The first printed books in Scotland appeared from the Edinburgh press of Walter Chepman
and Androw Myllar
.
1689
The Advocates Library
was founded in Edinburgh as a working library for the legal profession.
1897
Artisan Phoebe Traquair
completed her lavishly illustrated manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's Sonnets from the Portuguese.
The National Library of Scotland, where the manuscript is housed, notes that the transcriptions are from Traquair's...
31 October 1910
Frances Olive Underhill
, a graduate of Royal Holloway College
, was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson
Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian
: the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...
25 September 1914
Elizabeth (Elsie) Blackall Knocker
and Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm
left for Belgium as part of the Flying Ambulance Column
.
7 August 1925
An Act of Parliament established the National Library of Scotland
in Edinburgh.
30 October 1925
Librarian William Kirk Dickson
issued to the Rev. Donald J. Ross
the first reader's ticket for the National Library of Scotland
in Edinburgh.