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Textual Production Louisa Anne Meredith
Another picture book by LAM , An Autumn Ramble by the Wye, which combines her stories, poems, and descriptive passages with twenty engravings of drawings by various well-known artists, presents something of a bibliographic...
Textual Production Mary Penington
The note (probably made in 1785, which date has been written elsewhere in the book) says, The following most charming Treatise supposed to be written by the widow of Coll Springett, who became afterwards the...
Textual Production Elizabeth Stone
Elizabeth Stone published God's Acre; or, Historical Notices relating to Churchyards.
One of the two copies in the Bodleian has a new leaf replacing the original pages 187-8, which were cancelled.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1599 (19 June 1858): 778-81
Textual Production Lady Jane Cavendish
The more complete of these handsome manuscript volumes survives in the Bodleian Library as Rawlinson MS Poet 16, and was brought to the attention of scholars in 1931 by Nathan Comfort Starr . It bears...
Textual Production Isabella Ormston Ford
IOF 's Industrial Women and How to Help Them, a pamphlet detailing the problems facing female textile workers, was published by the Humanitarian League .
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Spartacus Educational. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell.
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Textual Production Hannah Kilham
Editor Fiona Robertson says that HK 's Report on a Recent Visit to the Colony of Sierra Leone, 1828, was preceded by a briefer report to the Committee of the Society of Friends for Promoting African Instruction
Textual Production Anna Trapnel
The Bodleian Library holds the resulting 1,000-page printed folio, whose title-page is missing.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge.
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The caption title on page 1 reads: Eighth month, 11 day, being the first day of the week, at nine of...
Textual Production May Crommelin
MC 's Dead Men's Dollars (which sounds like an adventure story but is actually, as before, more of a romance) was published at both London and Bristol.
It is dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL 's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden : titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot
Textual Production Elizabeth Moody
The full title is A Sketch of Modern France. In a series of letters to a lady of fashion. Written in the years 1796 and 1797. In his preface Christopher Lake Moody vouches for...
Textual Production Sarah Savage
She intended it as a record of the workings of my heart.
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. Holdsworth and Ball.
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Such a record was important in what Patricia Crawford has described as the family ideology of the Henrys. Diaries by SS 's...
Textual Production Annie Louisa Walker
The British Library and Bodleian Library hold only an undated edition for which they surmise a date of 1894. The unique Cornell copy of the Homespun Series edition listed by OCLC WorldCat includes publisher's advertisements.
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.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Lady Anne Barnard
Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB 's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order...
Textual Production Florence Dixie
In the same year, 1890, appeared FD 's two adventure stories written with young people in mind: Aniwee; or, The Warrior Queen, A Tale of the Araucanian Indians, and The Young Castaways; or, The...
Textual Production Elizabeth Helme
William Helme provided no information of any kind, but the Bodleian Library copy has a Longman advertisement for other books bound in at the end, dated April 1814. A second edition appeared in 1817.

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1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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25 November 1982

Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.

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