Bodleian Library

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Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
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.
Wilkes, Joanne. “Mary Ward as Critic of Matthew Arnold”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 453-67.
456 and n7
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
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.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
287
Publishing Susanna Blamire
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...
Publishing Lady Margaret Sackville
Fifty copies of the edition were printed on Arches French handmade paper, consecutively numbered, and signed by the Author.
Sackville, Lady Margaret. 100 Little Poems. Porpoise Press.
prelims
(The rest of the edition was more ordinarily produced. Bodley 's copy, consulted for this...
Publishing Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter...
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 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 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

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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.

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).

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.

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