Bodleian Library

MR published her novel In the Red Kitchen, dedicated to Jim Latter , whom she was to marry the next year.

BH 's novel The Guiding Thread begins with its heroine, Joan Holbrook, a blacksmith's daughter, imprisoned in her marriage to an insanely possessive and dominating scholar.

SM and Wendy Mulford together published Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings, a work of hagiography.

Bulstrode had by now been dead several years. Competing versions of the text were issued this year. The main work in this volume, the poem about the choice of a wife, was clearly extremely popular...

With Duncan Moray, Farmer (a three-volume novel published both at London and at Paisley in Scotland in early 1890),SV reverted to a Scottish setting...

She intended it as a record of the workings of my heart. Such a record was important in what Patricia Crawford has described as the family ideology of the Henrys. Diaries by SS 's...

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...