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Author summary | Enid Blyton | EB
was probably the most prolific and successful children's writer of the twentieth century. In three decades she produced more than four hundred titles: picture-books for small children, fairy stories, adventure stories, school stories, fantasy... |
Author summary | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire... |
Publishing | Eliza Fenwick | |
Publishing | Elizabeth Richardson | The full title is A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters, In three Books, Composed of Prayers and Meditations, fitted for, severall times, and upon severall occasions, As also severall Prayers for each day in the... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Moody | The Monthly trounced Fulke Greville's Reflection, A Poem in Four Cantos in 1790; Greville responded before the end of the year by printing an 85-page Letter to the Reviewers. Moody's covering letter to Griffiths... |
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... |
Publishing | P. D. James | The Bodleian Library
in Oxford published a highly personal work of criticism by PDJ
entitled Talking about Detective Fiction, whose proceeds James donated to support the library's activities. “P D James donates royalties from new book to the Bodleian Library”. Oxford Thinking. The Campaign for the University of Oxford, 30 Sept. 2009. |
Publishing | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes believed this work to be by SH
. He also noted that a section added to it in 1688 in a form then titled The Sacrifice of a devout Christian was identified by... |
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... |
Publishing | Jan Struther | JS
's final poetry volume, A Pocketful of Pebbles, published in New York by Harcourt Brace
, is not held by either the British Library
or the Bodleian Library
.. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001. 253 Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/. |
Publishing | Dorothy Leigh | A single copy of this first edition survives, in the Bodleian Library
. It was re-issued the next year, and twice more the year after that. There were seven editions in five years, and couple... |
Publishing | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | This book (attributed by the Bodleian Library
catalogue to CFC
, unlike the second and third in the series) was reprinted by Lea and Blanchard
in Philadelphia, 1846. A revised second edition was issued... |
Publishing | Maggie Gee | Reviewing Adrian Berry
's science-prediction book The Next 500 Years gave her the idea for this novel, and reading about film structure gave her its shape. She wrote it in six months; the result pleased... |
Publishing | Margaret Roper | Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster... |
Publishing | Katharine S. Macquoid | Her husband, already a regular contributor, illustrated some of the children's poems and stories she published there under the pseudonym of Gilbert Percy (made up of the names of her sons). These were collected in... |
Timeline
: Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published...
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Spring 1965
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
Scott, Diana, editor. Bread and Roses. Virago, 1982.
By mid-October 1983: Ursula Owen, editor of Virago Press, published...
Women writers item
By mid-October 1983
Ursula Owen
, editor of Virago Press
, published with them an anthology of essays: Fathers: Reflections by Daughters.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp.
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.
“Front Line: Google”. The Author, Vol.
cxvi
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2005, pp. 142-3. 142-3
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).
Garner, Richard. “A double-first at the Bodleian library as US woman takes over”. The Independent, 21 Feb. 2007.
“First woman to become Bodley’s Librarian”. University of Oxford: News, 16 Nov. 2006.
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.
“¥5m Donation Will Open the Bodleian Library’s Collections”. Oxford University Library Services: News, 7 Mar. 2008.
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