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Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
The Bodleian Library copy appears to be the only one extant.
Delafield, E. M., and Georgina Battiscombe. “Introduction”. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life, Constable and Company, pp. 9-15.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
About two years after her husband's death EPW published, through Longman , her first poetry collection: The Enchanted Flute, with Other Poems, and Fables from La Fontaine.
The Bodleian Library copy has La Fontaine's...
Publishing Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
EPW published at Lichfield her Fairy Tales in Verse.
The title-page of the Bodleian Library copy (bound into the composite volume mentioned above, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059) says this work was published at...
Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
EPW published what appears to be her final work, Old Stories Versified, of which copies are very rare (as they are of many of her works).
The British Library Catalogue does not list this...
Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
A different edition of this poem, including the same preface but without a title-page and having the translation printed straight through without the Latin original, forms part of an interesting composite volume held by the...
Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
EPW privately printed the first edition of her poem Flora & Pomona's Fête; or, The Origin of Botanical & Horticultural Meetings. A Poem After the Butterfly's Ball, in order to raise money for the...
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 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.
Textual Production John Strange Winter
In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...
Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
Letters from her survive at the Huntington Library , the Bodleian Library , and the Wellcome Library .
Publishing Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW 's A Visit to London serves to exemplify the difficulty of dating her work (apart from her full-length novels). (It has also been ascribed to Elizabeth Kilner , but the chain of allusive authorship...
Textual Production Isabella Whitney
The only surviving copy of this collection, bound up with other material is held by the Bodleian Library . It was once owned by the seventeenth-centeury scholar and antiquary John Selden, who understood it...
Textual Production Roma White
RW set her novel The Island of Seven Shadows (published the year after her marriage) in modern London, Paris, and Brittany.
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.
Textual Production Roma White
In a novel set in Egypt and entitled Backsheesh, RW presented an Englishman who marries an Islam ic woman.
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.
Textual Production Roma White
RW re-used the exotic setting of Egypt for another novel of comic rather than melodramatic tone: Moons and Winds of Araby, which has much in common with travel writing.
The date comes from the...

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.