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Publishing Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Both works (mentioned by her daughter-biographer) circulated widely in manuscript copies (particularly in the masculine environment of Oxford University ) and in printed miscellanies. Nadine N. W. Akkerman (who has argued Elizabeth Cary Falkland's probable...
Publishing Philip Larkin
The book went through many stages and revisions before publication: the first draft had been finished in February 1944.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...
Publishing Penelope Fitzgerald
As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I...
Publishing Ann Oakley
On coming down from Oxford in 1965, AO submitted to the Manchester Guardian an essay entitled On the Disadvantages of an Oxford Education. They rejected it.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992.
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Publishing Alicia D'Anvers
A new edition of ADA 's Academia appeared, again anonymously, in response to a recent play: The Humours of Oxford , A Comedy, by a Wadham undergraduate.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Publishing Elizabeth Hands
The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...
Publishing Nina Bawden
In NB 's third year at Oxford , John Wain started a new literary magazine, Mandrake, which published her first short story.
Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago, 1995.
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Publishing Ketaki Kushari Dyson
While she was studying English at Oxford University in the early 1960s, Ketaki Kushari (later KKD ) began to publish Bengali poems in various Indian literary magazines.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. “Forging a Bilingual Identity: A Writer’s Testimony”. Bilingual Women: Anthropological Approaches to Second Language Use, edited by Pauline Burton et al., Berg, 1994, pp. 170-85.
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Her first volume of poetry, Bolkol...
Publishing Mary Renault
MR had a poem published in the Oxford undergraduate magazine Fritillary.
Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
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Reception Caryl Churchill
CC has been recognised in Britain and the US with several major awards for play writing. As early as 1961, she won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize at Oxford University . New York productions of...
Reception Hilary Mantel
HM already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison , 2004. A. S. Byatt discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark
Reception André Gide
He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in the same year.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Reception Iris Murdoch
Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford
Reception Amanda McKittrick Ros
At St John's College, Cambridge , for instance, there flourished an Amanda Ros Club, whose members amused themselves by trying to write in the Amanda style.
Loudan, Jack, and T. Stanley Mercer. O Rare Amanda! 2nd ed., Chatto and Windus, 1969.
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Another such organisation, the Amanda Ros Society, formed...
Reception U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...

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