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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. |
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. This is dated by the acquisition stamp in the Bodleian Library
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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). Dated from the Bodleian Library
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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. 137 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. Dated from... |
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/. |
Timeline
1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
Women writers item
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...
Women writers item
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.
The volume is dated from...
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...
National or international item
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...
Women writers item
25 November 1982
Diana Scott
issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.
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