Bodleian Library

At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT delivered the typed, completed manuscript...

It was his first three-act play. Like Riders to the Sea, it drew its inspiration from the folklore of the Aran Islands. It was published at the end of the same year, in...

She does not argue an inherent right in all women to speak, but the right of selected women in specific circumstances to do so. In Old and New Testament equally, she says, it is evident...

Many of them flag through their titles the fact that their pivotal roles belong to women, in a way that suggests they were intended for a mostly female audience. Such titles include two which look...

The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. The body...

Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University .

This is a kind of specialised visitors' book. Its pages are forms to be filled in by the owner's friends, giving name and address, where and when they met the owner, and under the heading...

Forty-one years after the appearance of her first novel, RMA issued her last, Love Without Wings. Dark Gentleman had appeared by the end of May in the same year.

MR published her novel In the Red Kitchen, dedicated to Jim Latter , whom she was to marry the next year.

In 1943 NC began to work on collecting her poetry for an edition, as advised by Edward John Thompson , a fellow political radical and poetry editor for Benn publishers. The edition came to nothing...

BH 's novel The Guiding Thread begins with its heroine, Joan Holbrook, a blacksmith's daughter, imprisoned in her marriage to an insanely possessive and dominating scholar.

In a novel set in Egypt and entitled Backsheesh, RW presented an Englishman who marries an Islam ic woman.

SM and Wendy Mulford together published Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings, a work of hagiography.

CS firmly denied writing D'Arcy: A Novel, hitherto listed as published at Dublin this year, in an edition bearing a version of her name. Recent scholarship indicates that she was telling the truth.

CEP published her historical novel Giordano Bruno : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century in two volumes under her own name.