Bodleian Library

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hester Mulso (later HMC ) may have contributed the essay in The World published on 3 July 1755. A contemporary hand in the Bodleian copy (Per 2705 d. 307) ascribes this essay clearly to Mr...

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...

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

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

This work, published at Cambridge, is held by Cambridge University Library though not by either the British Library or the Bodleian .

A Morning in the Bodleian, an essay written collaboratively by Mary Augusta Arnold and her fiancé (later her husband), Thomas Humphry Ward , was privately printed.

Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...

She gave this month's date to her preface. The book reached a fourth edition by summer 1933 (as a stamp in the Bodleian Library copy records) and a reprint in the Penguin Classics series...

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...

ME intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.

Before the appearance of the first volume of her work, nearly fifty years after her death, SB was to some extent known for her songs. Often, however, the songs (some in English and some in...