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Bodleian Library
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Cecil Frances Alexander | Two more collections of hymns followed later: Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, in 1853, and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for Village Schools, in 1858. |
Textual Production | Rose Allatini | RA
published with her name as R. Allatini, through Mills and Boon
, her first novel, ". . . Happy Ever After". This is dated by the Bodleian Library
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. |
Textual Production | Rose Allatini | RA
published, undated, with publishers Andrew Melrose
, Payment, a novel which traces a young male life as bitterly ended as the young female life in ". . . Happy Ever After". Dated... |
Textual Production | Rose Allatini | After a twelve-year silence Rose Allatini
used her married name, Mrs Cyril Scott, and the publisher Martin Secker
(who had issued one of her earlier titles) for a volume of short stories, entitled White... |
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 | Rose Allatini | Rose Allatini
published the third of her Lucian Wainwright novels, Oracle, this time with Methuen
; its title-page mentions her two earlier books under this name. Dated from the Bodleian Library
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. |
Textual Production | Rose Allatini | RA
issued the first of her twenty-nine novels under the pseudonym of Eunice Buckley: Family from Vienna. The Bodleian Library
copy bears the acquisition date of 5 January 1942. 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. |
Textual Production | Rose Allatini | RA
, as Eunice Buckley, dedicated her novel Destination Unknown, in friendship and admiration, to her fellow-writer Constance Holme
. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Allatini, Rose. Destination Unknown. Andrew Dakers. prelims |
Textual Production | Rose Allatini | RA
's novel of this year, Blue Danube, was again issued under the name of Eunice Buckley. 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 | Rose Allatini | In probably her eighty-ninth year RA
(as Eunice Buckley) issued her final novel, Work of Art. Her penultimate one, Young Man of Great Promise, had appeared early the same year. Dated from... |
Textual Production | Rose Allatini | In 2008 the British Library
and the Bodleian
catalogues still listed the three Wainwright novels under this name, with no mention of Allatini's real one. |
Textual Production | Laurence Alma-Tadema | LAT
published The Crucifix, A Venetian Phantasy, and Other Tales (listed by the Bodleian Library
catalogue as The Crucifix, and Other Tales). “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (25 July 1895): 13 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. 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 | Laurence Alma-Tadema | 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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Ashbridge | This edition seems not to survive, since it is unlisted (in 2007) in the English Short Title Catalogue or Early English Books Online.Reprints, however, included one published by W. Alexander
of York as part... |
Textual Production | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her letters to D. H. Lawrence
are in the Harry Ransom Research Center
at the University of Texas at Austin
and her letters to Walter de la Mare
in the Bodleian Library
. Most of... |
Timeline
Between 1355 and 1366: The first surviving road-map of Great Britain,...
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Between 1355 and 1366
The first surviving road-map of Great Britain, now known as the Gough Map after the antiquarian Richard Gough
, was produced.
About 1400: An important manuscript book in Welsh, compiled...
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About 1400
An important manuscript book in Welsh, compiled this year, is now known as the Llyfr Coch o Hergest or Red Book of Hergest. It survives in the Bodleian Library
at Oxford.
1537: François I issued an ordinance requiring...
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1537
François I
issued an ordinance requiring publishers throughout France to deposit a copy of every new book published in the Royal Library at Blois.
18 April 1593: Shakespeare's first published work, the narrative...
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18 April 1593
Shakespeare
's first published work, the narrative poemVenus and Adonis, was registered with the Stationers' Company
; the only recorded copy is in the Bodleian Library
.
8 November 1602: The Bodleian Library, Oxford, first admitted...
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8 November 1602
The Bodleian Library
, Oxford, first admitted readers (nearly five years after Sir Thomas Bodley
's original offer to restore Duke Humfrey's Library).
12 December 1610: The Stationers' Company agreed to deposit,...
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12 December 1610
The Stationers' Company
agreed to deposit, free of charge, in the Bodleian Library
one copy of every book that was published.
11 July 1637: The Bodleian Library's right to one copy...
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11 July 1637
The Bodleian Library
's right to one copy of each new book published in Britain was re-established by order of Archbishop Laud
, who happened at the time to be Chancellor of Oxford University
.
Before 1638: William Page, Fellow of All Souls College,...
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Before 1638
William Page
, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
, created a proto-feminist text entitled Womens Worth: A Treatise proveing by sundrie reasons that woemen do excell men.
From 1662: The King's Library (now part of the British...
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From 1662
The King's Library (now part of the British Library
) and Cambridge University Library
enjoyed the legal right to a copy of every book published in Britain (a right granted to the Bodleian
on 11...
From about 1667: John Aubrey wrote the biographical jottings...
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From about 1667
John Aubrey
wrote the biographical jottings on authors and other celebrities known to posterity as his Brief Lives, as part of his extensive compilation of manuscript information on many topics.
1678: Ann Bathurst, a middle-class member of Jane...
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1678
Ann Bathurst
, a middle-class member of Jane Lead
's religious sect, was visited by an angel; as a consequence she began to keep a diary of her visions.
1710: Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through...
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1710
Oxford
scholar Thomas Hearne
published through the university press
the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland
, Antiquary.
4 April 1788: At about the time that he lost his religious...
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4 April 1788
At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin
began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.
1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...
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1825
Alexander Dyce
, then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.
1830: Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans's Dartmoor,...
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1830
Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans
's Dartmoor, a poem, Sophie Dixon
published at Plymouth two journals, in prose and verse, of excursions around the moor.
Texts
Friends of the Bodleian. Duke Humfrey’s Night. Bodleian Library, 2015.
James, P. D. Talking about Detective Fiction. Bodleian Library, 2009.
Johnson, Jane, and Gillian Avery. A Very Pretty Story. Bodleian Library, 2001.
Langley, Helen. Modern Political Papers in the Bodleian Library. Bodleian Library, 1996.