Bodleian Library

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Textual Production Anna Atkins
AA privately issued a Memoir of her father , including some unpublished poetry by his father and himself.
The Bodleian Library copy has an autograph letter from AA pasted in, dated 26 September.
Atkins, Anna, and John George Children. Memoir of J. G. Children, Esq. Privately printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1853.
title-page
names Anne Audland
  • BirthName: Anne
    Scholar Phyllis Mack spells her name Ann, though the catalogues of both the British Library and the Bodleian have Anne.
    Newby
  • Married: Audland; Camm
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
Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
RMA published her first novel, Castles in Spain, which, like her later works, she attributed to the fact that, with a husband out at work all day and no children, she had plenty of...
Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
Four years after her first novel, RMA issued the first of her nearly 140 titles published in a highly successful working relationship with Hodder and Stoughton , Richard Chatterton, V.C..
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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.
Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
RMA 's novel Wynne of Windwhistle followed another familiar romance pattern: of the hero who at first appears an ogre but is revealed to be good and loving.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
In Life Steps InRMA departed from her common practice, producing a romantic novel of star-crossed love instead of her usual happy ending.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
Forty-one years after the appearance of her first novel, RMA issued her last, Love Without Wings. Dark Gentleman had appeared by the end of May in the same year.
Dark Gentleman was acquired by...
Textual Production Louisa Baldwin
LB , as Mrs. Alfred Baldwin, published Afterglow, a collection of poems not primarily directed at children.
Publication is dated from the accession stamp in the Bodleian Library copy.
Baldwin, Louisa. Afterglow. Methuen, 1911.
prelims
Textual Production Mary Barber
The Bodleian copy is Vet. A 4 f. 438 (9). Harvard has recently acquired a copy of an otherwise unknown Dublin edition with a different title: A True Tale to be Added to Mr. Gay's...
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
Marguerite Barclay (the future HB ) published as Oliver Sandys a novel entitled Chicane, one of whose leading characters is a woman swindler.
This is dated from the Anglican Church acquisition stamp.
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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, 1990.
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
HB 's final, posthumous novel was again issued as by Oliver Sandys: it is Madame Adastra, set largely in the world of hospitals and nursing.
Dated from Bodleian Library accession stamp.
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Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
A late Barcynska novel, Black Harvest, reflected HB 's autobiographical and exotic tendencies, placing details of her own life among two convents, a circus, film stardom and debate over artificial insemination.
This is dated...
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
HB used her favourite pseudonym of Oliver Sandys for her biography of her late husband: Caradoc Evans, dedicated to his wayward spirit; she signed the dedication Marguerite.
Dated from the Bodleian acquisition stamp.
Barcynska, Hélène. Caradoc Evans. Hurst and Blackett, 1946.
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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.
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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...

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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...

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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