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Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
BH collaborated with William A. Edwards in publishing with Lippincott of PhiladelphiaTwo Health-Seekers in Southern California, an advice or how-to book on running a small commercial orchard as an occupation for an invalid...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
SM published with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge her book of feminist theology entitled Awesome God: Creation, Commitment and Joy.
This is dated by the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Lady Anne Barnard
Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...
Textual Production Florence Dixie
In the same year, 1890, appeared FD 's two adventure stories written with young people in mind: Aniwee; or, The Warrior Queen, A Tale of the Araucanian Indians, and The Young Castaways; or, The...
Textual Production Mary Webb
MW 's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces.
The Bodleian Library holds a copy of this edition (with...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
During this year MS was reading works by both her mother and her father, and many publications for children.
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelleys Mythological Dramas Midas and ProserpineWomens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 385-11.
388, 389-90
She tried hard to get her plays published. She submitted both in 1824 to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Alicia D'Anvers
Another aspect of Oxford presents itself through the hero's bumpkin servant John Blunder, who takes the guided tour. He is full of misapprehensions: that every building he sees is a church; that Queen's College is...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Alicia D'Anvers
ADA 's immortal Sing-Song / How all th'old Dons were at it Ding-dong
D’Anvers, Alicia. The Oxford-Act. Randal Taylor, 1693.
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describes and exploits the annual university carnival of misrule which employed a licensed burlesque speaker. She drops, with cheerful irreverence, a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Celia Fiennes
CF is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marianne Moore
The editors of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore see the defining characteristic of these private writings as their vitality, their passionate engagement with the world at large.
Moore, Marianne. “Introduction”. The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, edited by Bonnie Costello et al., Knopf, 1997, p. ix - xv.
ix
The early letters are rich in...
Wealth and Poverty Elinor James
Thomas James's will, proved in May 1710, did not leave EJ the library: he intended it to become a public library in its own right, under the title of the Jameson Society. Elinor, however, got...

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