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Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | While travelling to and through Egypt, FN
kept a diary. It was thought until recently that only one diary survived from this trip, the one covering the period 1 January-15 July 1850, held at... |
Textual Production | Marie Stopes | |
Textual Production | Frances Wright | The play was published the same year by Matthew Carey
at Philadelphia. A London edition followed in 1822. The British Library
holds copies of each edition containing manuscript notes. |
Textual Production | Enid Blyton | The first number appeared of Enid Blyton's Magazine, the month after the end of her previous periodical for children, Sunny Stories. Her biographer Barbara Stoney
gives the title as Enid Blyton Magazine... |
Textual Production | Frances Cornford | Cornford's papers are kept at the British Library
. Dowson, Jane et al. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xiii - xxv. xxiv |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Joscelin | EJ
seems to have begun writing when she felt herself quick with child (or first felt the foetus moving inside her); this was also when she ordered her winding-sheet or shroud. Unequivocally, it seems, her... |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | The British Library
holds the manuscript of Miss Bunting. |
Textual Production | Mary Martha Sherwood | Another of MMS
's books of this kind was The History of Henry Milner, a little boy, who was not brought up according to the fashions of this world, whose hero is based on... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | The present BL
Egerton MS 607 was at one time owned by the author's descendant Samuel Egerton Brydges
. Two contemporary copies of this manuscript, one of them with extensive and important annotation by the... |
Textual Production | Sarah Dixon | McMaster University
has a copy of SD
's Poems on Several Occasions which contains contemporary manuscript notes, and an extra unpublished poem (on the familiar topic of an abandoned shepherdess) written on pages laid into... |
Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | This text is not listed by OCLC or by the British Library
catalogue, but the Bodleian Library
has a copy. 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. |
Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | In 1912 EU
prepared an edition of The Cloud of Unknowing with an introduction tracing its history from its beginnings in the sixth century through its first translation into English, in the fourteenth century. Her... |
Textual Production | Maria Callcott | This appeared as printed for the author. MC
says her frontispiece, sketched in 1834, was to be her very last attempt at holding a pencil. Callcott, Maria. A Description of the Chapel of the Annunziata dell’Arena. Printed for the author by T. Brettell. prelims |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | These 36 pages in folio, printed at Oxford University Press
, survive in the British Library
. This fragment, like the sample single homily, has parallel texts: the original Anglo-Saxon and EE
's modern English.The... |
Textual Production | Rose Hickman | The British Library
has three copies of her work, but none is her original. The earliest, most likely made by her son William Hickman around the date of her death, is bound up with an... |
Timeline
20 October 1940: 10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish...
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20 October 1940
10,000 bound volumes of English and Irish newspapers held by the British Museum
were destroyed and a further 15,000 were damaged by bombing at Colindale north of London.
25 October 1997: The Round Reading Room at the British Library...
Building item
25 October 1997
The Round Reading Room at the British Library
was finally closed.
7 February 2007: First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded...
Women writers item
7 February 2007
First-time writer Stef Penney
was awarded the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year prize (worth £25,000) for her novelThe Tenderness of Wolves.
6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...
Writing climate item
6 October 2010
A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes
, Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC
's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce
.
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.
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