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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana
's most famous poem, The Passage of Mount St Gothard or The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard, was written while she was travelling in the Alps in 1792 with Lady Elizabeth... |
| Publishing | Mary Martha Sherwood | |
| Publishing | Cecil Frances Alexander | Two more collections of hymns followed later: Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, in 1853, and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for Village Schools, in 1858. 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. |
| Publishing | Hélène Barcynska | On the title-page of Pretty Dear MB's pseudonym is The Countess Barcynska with an accent on the n of Barcynska. Its spring publication is mentioned in a list of new Hurst and Blackett
books bound... |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Harriet Corp | |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Jane Austen | Volume the Third was bought by the British Library
. The incomplete manuscript of The Watsons was bought at this sale by a private buyer who placed it on deposit at Queen Mary and Westfield College |
| Publishing | Hester Mulso Chapone | |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Frances Lady Norton | The full title is Misery's Virtues Whetstone, Reliquiae Gethinianae; or, Some Remains of the Most Ingenious and Excellent Lady, Lady Grace Gethin, Lately Deceased. Being a Collection of Choice Discourses, Pleasant Apothegmes, and Witty Sentences... |
| Publishing | Maria Edgeworth | The Bodleian Library
has recently acquired a later edition of one of these tales, Vivian, with ME
's autograph revisions in ink and comments in pencil by the recipient of the volume, Mary Sneyd |
| 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... |
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.
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25 November 1982: Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology...
Women writers item
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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