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Textual Production Susan Hill
SH published The Woman in Black, a novel or novella or ghost story with atmospheric illustrations by John Lawrence , which five years later went on to enjoy immense success as an adaptation for...
Textual Production Jane Marcet
Though this is a marked departure from JM 's science-conversation format, it shares her instructional impulse, containing accounts of, for instance, the production of salt in Abyssinia. It could plausibly be ascribed to her. The...
Textual Production Annie S. Swan
ASS published A Maid of the Isles, A Romance of Skye.
Publication is dated from the Bodleian Library stamp.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
Though the printed sheet bears no name, a manuscript note in the British Library copy identifies it as by EPW . A copy appears as the final item in the Bodleian Library 's composite volume...
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
While the Bodleian Library copy is perfect, the copy at the University of Alberta has been misprinted in such a way as to shuffle early pages out of sequence. The title-page, list of contents, two...
Textual Production Margaret Minifie
Though she did not set her name to this novel, her listing of an earlier title which did name her leaves her authorship in no doubt. Nevertheless, as The English Novel 1770-1829 notes, this too...
Textual Production Margaret Roberts
MR , as the author of Mademoiselle Mori, published her last novel (though not her last book), Niccolina Niccolini.
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Textual Production Joanna Trollope
Thirty-eight authors participated, donating their work to raise money for Oxfam. Each volume reflects an aspect of the charity's work. They were featured at the Oxfam Bookfest (which began in July 2009, the first of...
Textual Production Rose Allatini
Rose Allatini chose a new pseudonym, Lucian Wainwright (but the same publisher), for the first of her two novels this year, entitled Waters' Meet. Later in the year came Girl of Good Family...
Textual Production Sarah Chapone
Some of SC 's letters remain at Gloucestershire Record Office , in the Bodleian Library , and among Richardson's correspondence in the Victoria and Albert Museum . Her surviving letters to John Wesley are printed...
Textual Production Julia Frankau
JF published a new Frank Danby novel, Pigs in Clover, after a break of fifteen years (during which her children were growing up).
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Textual Production May Laffan
According to scholar Helena Kelleher Kahn , the first American edition of ML 's realist novel Christy Carew appeared in 1878, although standard library catalogues record no edition before 1880.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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Kahn stands almost alone...
Textual Production Hannah More
HM was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
GHS 's best-known novel appeared: Mrs. Fischer's War, about an experience which she herself had endured, of prejudice and rejection by her own society as the Other, as allegedly alien and unpatriotic.
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Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Together with Michèle Roberts , MW edited and introduced a collection of poetry by five women, Cutlasses & Earrings, published in the Playbooks series.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.

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1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...

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1838

Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria 's Scottish ancestry.

1840: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented...

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1840

Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented the calotype system of photography.

15 September 1870: Following the proclamation on the 4th of...

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15 September 1870

Following the proclamation on the 4th of September of the French Third Republic, the Prussian army besieged Paris.

1881: A religious novel published this year with...

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1881

A religiousnovel published this year with 1882 on its title-page, Nellie; or Seeking Goodly Pearls by Mrs Meredith, has been wrongly ascribed to Louisa Anne Meredith , but is actually by the Evangelical Christian Susanna Meredith .

By September 1887: William Walker published at Aberdeen The...

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By September 1887

William Walker published at AberdeenThe Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860, a history of poetry in Aberdeenshire, which had already appeared serially in the Herald and Weekly Free Press.
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1895: Falconer Madan, librarian of the Bodleian...

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1895

Falconer Madan , librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, published two important studies of printing presses.

25 March 1901: Sarah Angelina Acland, pioneer of colour...

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25 March 1901

Sarah Angelina Acland , pioneer of colour photography, showed her first exhibition of completed slides to a meeting of the Oxford Camera Club . She used the new Sanger-Shepherd process, which dated from October 1899...

By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...

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By 27 September 1905

Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young : The First Book of Geometry.

31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...

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31 October 1910

Frances Olive Underhill , a graduate of Royal Holloway College , was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian : the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...

By 28 November 1934: The young Flora Robson, in A Letter to a...

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By 28 November 1934

The young Flora Robson , in A Letter to a Young Actress, contributed as a preface to Ladies Only by Muriel and Sydney Box , provided a fascinating account of women's part in amateur...

Early 1936: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by...

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Early 1936

The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts (who was put forward for this task by T. S. Eliot ), set out to define the modern movement, not just chronologically but according...

March 1960: In response to an appeal from the African...

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March 1960

In response to an appeal from the African National Congress (and following Harold Macmillan 's famous winds of change speech of 3 February), a Boycott Committee against South African produce was established in Britain...

18 September 1961: Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the...

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18 September 1961

Dag Hammarskjöld , Secretary-General of the United Nations , was killed in a plane crash near Ndola in the then Northern Rhodesia

: Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published...

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Spring1965

Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published at Merthyr Tydfil, partly in order to allow English-language poets to contribute to the revitalised nationalist culture of the period.

25 November 1982: Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology...

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25 November 1982

Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.

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