OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Cambridge University Library
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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
. 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. 231 |
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. 9 |
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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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