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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 Kirkham Mathews
The first edition, unlisted in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in the Bodleian Library . Miami University holds a second edition published in 1803 at York, with illustrations from Thomas Bewick
Publishing Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
This work, published at Cambridge, is held by Cambridge University Library
“Newton Library Catalogue”. University of Cambridge: Cambridge University Library and Dependent Libraries.
though not by either the British Library or the Bodleian .
Publishing Emily Gerard
EG published with Digby, Long and Co. of London an intriguingly-titled novella, The Tragedy of a Nose, which occupies about two-thirds of the volume it shares with a tale entitled A Brief Delirium...
Publishing Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn , knew Marguerite well and owned a copy of her book, which may have been used for this translation. Elizabeth writes merely that she has translated this little book out of...
Publishing Clara Codd
CC was a prolific writer on her faith. Between 1917 and 1947, she published a number of books and pamphlets: Looking Forward: The Coming Faith and the Coming Social Order (1918), On Lecturing and Lecture...
Publishing Eliza Fenwick
This was illustrated with woodcuts. Copies were sold already coloured, or (more cheaply at one shilling) for the child-owners to colour themselves. Tabart advertised this title in several other books, including EF 's Visits to...
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 Elizabeth Helme
Helme's Translator's Preface explains that she has replaced Campe's group of pupils with a whole family and their parents, observing that children will find that more interesting.
Campe, Joachim Heinrich. Columbus. Translator Helme, Elizabeth, Sampson Low, 1799, 2 vols.
1: iii
She praises the explorers for their...
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 Jane Johnson
The manuscript also contains fair copies of ten poems and a prayer.
qtd. in
C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
16
, No. 2, Oct. 1997, pp. 165-8.
166
John Newbery published a similar tale, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, in 1744. JJ 's work did not reach actual print (as...
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 Frances Mary Peard
The Bodleian Library 's copy of The Locked Desk has a blue cloth cover (with touches of red) showing two young people at sea in a rowing boat. The cover of a US edition pictured...

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...

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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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