Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Bodleian Library
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Textual Production | Hannah More | HM
was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay |
Textual Production | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
's best-known novel appeared: Mrs. Fischer's War, about an experience which she herself had endured, of prejudice and rejection by her own society as the Other, as allegedly alien and unpatriotic. Dated from... |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Together with Michèle Roberts
, MW
edited and introduced a collection of poetry by five women, Cutlasses & Earrings, published in the Playbooks series. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. |
Textual Production | Mona Caird | The anonymous novel Lady Hetty, A Story of Scottish and Australian Life, is attributed to MC
by the British Library Catalogue and by critic Patricia Murphy
, but seems to be actually by John Service |
Textual Production | Frances Mary Peard | FMP
published Alicia Tennant, the story of a young woman brought up so dutiful and biddable that she is unable to go against the wishes of her elders, even when her happiness is at... |
Textual Production | Dorothy White | |
Textual Production | Emily Gerard | EG
's novel The Extermination of Love. A Fragmentary Study in Erotics is a satirical romance with undertones of fantasy, which seems to owe something to the new science of psychology. April is the date... |
Textual Production | Alethea Lewis | The subscribers included George Crabbe
and his wife
, and Mary Meeke
(who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale
... |
Textual Production | Ruth Pitter | Many of her letters are in the Bodleian Library
, others at Washington State University
and Wheaton College
at Wheaton, Illinois; those to Nettie Palmer are in the National Library of Australia
and those... |
Textual Production | Annie S. Swan | Eleven months before she died ASS
published Who Are the Heathen? with Hodder and Stoughton
; her one other novel this year was The Family Name (with J. Leng
in The People's Friend Library)... |
Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | HB
turned to a different publisher for her second autobiographical volume, Unbroken Thread: an Intimate Journal of the Daily Life in the Welsh Countryside of England's Best-loved Woman Novelist. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | This is now rare. The Beinecke Library
at Yale University
has a copy; the Bodleian Library
copy is the first item in Sidney Tongue's composite volume, shelf-mark Vet. A6 e. 1059, mentioned above. |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | The volume has for frontispiece a silhouette of MD
aged eighty-seven and five months, published on 7 July this year. Its 1821 reprint is called the third edition. The Bodleian Library
's copy of the... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | The Bodleian Library
copy appears to be the only one extant. Delafield, E. M., and Georgina Battiscombe. “Introduction”. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life, Constable and Company, pp. 9-15. 15 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire
re-issued her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
's The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard at Paris with her own Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland. Bess's work... |
Timeline
August 2005: Google's plans for massive digitization of...
Writing climate item
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...
Building item
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...
Building item
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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