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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/.
Textual Production Margaret Legge
ML quickly followed her first novel with a second, The Price of Stephen Bonyng, with the same publisher.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
Marguerite Barclay (the future HB ) published as Oliver Sandys a novel entitled Chicane, one of whose leading characters is a woman swindler.
This is dated from the Anglican Church acquisition stamp.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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.
Textual Production Frances Mary Peard
FMP published Alicia Tennant, the story of a young woman brought up so dutiful and biddable that she is unable to go against the wishes of her elders, even when her happiness is at...
Textual Production Elizabeth Daryush
Though its title includes the figure 1911, it was published (by Bowes and Bowes of Cambridge) in 1912. The British Library , the Bodleian Library , and Cambridge University Library boast copies. It is clearly extremely rare.
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton published with Jonathan Cape another novel, Folly's Handbook.
The Bodleian Library copy is date-stamped 15 June 1927.
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
(1927): 324
Textual Production Dorothy White
The Bodleian has a copy, 110 j. 229 (5). DW published under her initials, but included her name in her text. A contemporary reader wrote in White's full surname on the title-page of the copy...
Textual Production Cecily Mackworth
Cecily Mackworth published Spring's Green Shadow, which remained her only novel for exactly forty years.
Dated from Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman.
130
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited.
Textual Production Enid Blyton
The first number appeared of Enid Blyton's Magazine, the month after the end of her previous periodical for children, Sunny Stories.
Her biographer Barbara Stoney gives the title as Enid Blyton Magazine...
Textual Production Ruth Pitter
Many of her letters are in the Bodleian Library , others at Washington State University and Wheaton College at Wheaton, Illinois; those to Nettie Palmer are in the National Library of Australia and those...
Textual Production Annie S. Swan
Eleven months before she died ASS published Who Are the Heathen? with Hodder and Stoughton ; her one other novel this year was The Family Name (with J. Leng in The People's Friend Library)...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
The title of the series (used in the Bodleian though not in the British Library catalogue) was Tales for the People and their Children. Following the British Libary dating (since authorities differ) MC's own...
Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
This is now rare. The Beinecke Library at Yale University has a copy; the Bodleian Library copy is the first item in Sidney Tongue's composite volume, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059, mentioned above.

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August 2005: Google's plans for massive digitization of...

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August 2005

Google 's plans for massive digitization of printed books for reading online were temporarily halted by threats of litigation in the USA.

19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...

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19 February 2007

Sarah Thomas , an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University 's Bodleian Library (opened on 8 November 1602).

7 March 2008: Julian Blackwell, head of Blackwell's bookshop...

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7 March 2008

Julian Blackwell , head of Blackwell's bookshop and publishing firm, made a five million pound donation to Oxford University 's Bodleian Library , the largest ever to a university library in the UK.

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