Bodleian Library

One of the earliest joint publications by Marguerite and Armiger Barclay was an anonymous sentimental novel which the Bodleian Library catalogue dates 1910, tentatively but improbably, since they did not marry till 1911. It is...

JH dated her preface 12 February 1806. A former owner of what is now the Bodleian Library copy, who lived at Tynemouth Vicarage, wrote their name in the novel in 1936. The Chawton House Library

SM published with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge her book of feminist theology entitled Awesome God: Creation, Commitment and Joy.

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...

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...

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...

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...