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.
Bodleian Library
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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. 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 | |
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. |
Timeline
August 2005: Google's plans for massive digitization of...
Writing climate item
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...
Building item
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...
Building item
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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