Bodleian Library

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...

ADA 's immortal Sing-Song / How all th'old Dons were at it Ding-dong describes and exploits the annual university carnival of misrule which employed a licensed burlesque speaker. She drops, with cheerful irreverence, a...

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...

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. The early letters are rich in...

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...

RA 's novel of this year, Blue Danube, was again issued under the name of Eunice Buckley.

GC published a poetry volume, Letter from a Far Country, whose title poem had been first written for radio, and broadcast in 1978 as a half-hour programme.

PF published a novel of London theatre life, Ask Me No More: its three books are set in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.

MR set her next novel, The Looking Glass, in France at a similar period, the turn of the nineteenth century.

EU published with HeinemannThe Miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary, an anthology of translated fairytales of mediæval Catholicism .

The Bodleian copy is Vet. A 4 f. 438 (9). Harvard has recently acquired a copy of an otherwise unknown Dublin edition with a different title: A True Tale to be Added to Mr. Gay's...

From learning the Welsh language, CG moved on to studying its earlier form: what is now called Middle Welsh, together with medieval Welsh history and other literature dating from those years. From her researches sprang...

Cecily Mackworth published another biography, The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt, about an intrepid Victorian traveller in Arab lands.

Morris was writing too early to know of the existence of that splendid Oxford satirist Alicia D'Anvers , or to include in a section called Port and PrejudiceMary Jones 's early-eighteenth-century fantasy of a...

She dedicated it to H. R. L. S. (her husband) with the words If he will take it with my love. The epigraph reads En Somnii Explanatio (a phrase meaning this is the explanation...