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...

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...

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...

The Bodleian Library holds some of her letters.

HW provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke , Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works...

Given the coincidence of names in LAT 's family, it is hardly surprising that misattributions should have occurred. The British Library Catalogue adds the name of her stepmother, presumably in error, to its listings of...

As well as writings by CC now among the Beachcroft family private archive (at the Bodleian Library ) and the Stoneleigh papers (at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust , Stratford-upon-Avon), the letters whose backs Frances Burney

She set a high rate of production over the next few years. In 1958 came both Five Poems (with illustrations by Jess Collins , the male partner of Robert Duncan ), published by White Rabbit Press

The Headland, a stylistically experimental novel by CADS , was published by Heinemann

JW 's letters, which were much admired by her contemporaries, have not survived, though Joseph's letters to her are extant in the Bodleian Library .

HB used her favourite pseudonym of Oliver Sandys for her biography of her late husband: Caradoc Evans, dedicated to his wayward spirit; she signed the dedication Marguerite.

When the favoutite Punch cartoonist Pont (Graham Laidler) published a collection of his work entitled The British Character, EMD was an obvious choice to write the introduction.

WP published her second volume of memoirs (and her final book), Home for the Holidays, dedicated to Antonia, who read my proofs.