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Textual Production Sarah Williams
Copies survive in the British Library , Cambridge University Library , and the library of the University of Pennsylvania .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Textual Production Agnes Wenman
Wenman's translation survives in Cambridge University Library (callmarks MSS. Dd.1. 18, 19 and Mm. 3. 32) in two versions: a beautifully written two-volume folio scribal copy (made after the deaths of both the author and...
Textual Production Anna Steele
Braintree is only about six miles from Steele's home, Rivenhall Place, and she later published her play, too, locally. This text is not in the Bodleian or Cambridge University Library and not listed by...
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
FAS is said to have issued her short-story volume entitled In the Permanent Way, and Other Stories, though the only English edition to survive in any numbers appeared in 1898.
As with On the...
Author summary Mary Martha Sherwood
MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
Textual Production Emma Robinson
ER , as the author of Whitefriars, published Caesar Borgia , An Historical Romance: the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library though not the British Library hold copies of this edition.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Christabel Pankhurst
OCLC lists forty copies of this publication surviving in libraries (many at bible colleges or theological seminaries), but not one outside North America: the title is not held by the British Library , the Bodleian
Textual Features Carola Oman
Her full title is Robin Hood, The Prince of Outlaws, A Tale of the Fourteenth Century from the "Lytell Geste". Her preface, in explaining how she came to write this book, does a nice...
Textual Production Mary Masters
She had been writing and gathering the material here for at least ten years. The volume was printed for the Author, and dedicated to Lord Burlington (who subscribed for eight copies). Its publication was...
Textual Production Marie de France
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that MF's latest work by date is her collection of 102 Fables in the manner of Aesop , translated into French from the English of someone called Alfred...
Publishing Delarivier Manley
In 2007 a copy of volumes one and two of the first edition (bearing a contemporary manuscript key in each volume, which is found in the Cambridge University Library copy too) were offered for sale...
Textual Production Mary Linskill
For Pity's Sake, which appeared posthumously, was, says Cordelia Stamp , the last novel that ML wrote—or rather the last she worked at, revising it from an early story.
This book is not listed...
Textual Production Margaret Legge
Margaret Legge published her first novel, A Semi-Detached Marriage, which criticises the inequality embedded in marriage law and customs.
Dated from the Cambridge University Library acquisition stamp.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Reception May Laffan
Helena Kelleher Kahn claimed this work was that of a woman depressed enough to consider taking her own life.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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The unpublished manuscript (which is held at the Cambridge University Library ) marks a subdued...
Publishing Margery Kempe
He avoided anything too controversial, and chose description of interior contemplation rather than external action. Only one copy of his work survives, in Cambridge University Library .
Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, translated by. Barry A. Windeatt, Penguin, pp. 9-30.
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Henry Pepwell reprinted the same passage in...

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From 1662: The King's Library (now part of the British...

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From 1662

The King's Library (now part of the British Library ) and Cambridge University Library enjoyed the legal right to a copy of every book published in Britain (a right granted to the Bodleian on 11...

31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...

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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...

1934: Architect Giles Gilbert Scott designed Cambridge...

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1934

Architect Giles Gilbert Scott designed Cambridge University Library, which was completed this year.

22 October 1934: King George V opened the new Cambridge University...

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22 October 1934

26 January 2009: Cambridge University announced that Anne...

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26 January 2009

Cambridge University announced that Anne Jarvis , former Sub-Librarian, had been appointed its first woman University Librarian .

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