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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
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 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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
“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.
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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...

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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.
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, 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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