Bodleian Library

RA issued the first of her twenty-nine novels under the pseudonym of Eunice Buckley: Family from Vienna.

These letters had been sold by Thomas to Edmund Curll . They are now in the Bodleian Library . Their publication in incongruous company would no doubt have deeply distressed MLC , had she...

JF published a new Frank Danby novel, Pigs in Clover, after a break of fifteen years (during which her children were growing up).

GT exchanged original poetry with one of her Jesuit brothers-in-law, Edward Thimelby , who travelled secretly in England and who hoped to translate Donne into Italian.Constance Fowler 's poetry manuscript, which includes many...

MR set her next novel, The Looking Glass, in France at a similar period, the turn of the nineteenth century.

OM published her ninth and shortest novel, The Play Room (which appeared the same year in the USA as Camperlea Girls).

Another aspect of Oxford presents itself through the hero's bumpkin servant John Blunder, who takes the guided tour. He is full of misapprehensions: that every building he sees is a church; that Queen's College is...

ADA 's immortal Sing-Song / How all th'old Dons were at it Ding-dong describes and exploits the annual university carnival of misrule which employed a licensed burlesque speaker. She drops, with cheerful irreverence, a...

CF is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe...

The editors of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore see the defining characteristic of these private writings as their vitality, their passionate engagement with the world at large. The early letters are rich in...

Thomas James's will, proved in May 1710, did not leave EJ the library: he intended it to become a public library in its own right, under the title of the Jameson Society. Elinor, however, got...