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Publishing Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana 's most famous poem, The Passage of Mount St Gothard or The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard, was written while she was travelling in the Alps in 1792 with Lady Elizabeth...
Publishing P. D. James
The Bodleian Library in Oxford published a highly personal work of criticism by PDJ entitled Talking about Detective Fiction, whose proceeds James donated to support the library's activities.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
“P D James donates royalties from new book to the Bodleian Library”. Oxford Thinking. The Campaign for the University of Oxford.
Publishing Cecil Frances Alexander
Two more collections of hymns followed later: Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, in 1853, and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for Village Schools, in 1858.
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.
CFA 's various books of hymns went through multiple...
Publishing Harriet Corp
HC 's Talents Improved; or, The Philanthopist, now known not to have been her earliest published work, mentions on its title-page her authorship of Interesting Conversations. The Bodleian 's copy (apparently the first...
Publishing Hélène Barcynska
On the title-page of Pretty Dear MB's pseudonym is The Countess Barcynska with an accent on the n of Barcynska. Its spring publication is mentioned in a list of new Hurst and Blackett books bound...
Publishing Elizabeth Helme
Helme's Translator's Preface explains that she has replaced Campe's group of pupils with a whole family and their parents, observing that children will find that more interesting.
Campe, Joachim Heinrich. Columbus. Translator Helme, Elizabeth, Sampson Low.
1: iii
She praises the explorers for their...
Publishing Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW 's A Visit to London serves to exemplify the difficulty of dating her work (apart from her full-length novels). (It has also been ascribed to Elizabeth Kilner , but the chain of allusive authorship...
Publishing Margaret Roper
Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster...
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
Publishing Jane Johnson
The manuscript also contains fair copies of ten poems and a prayer.
C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
16
, No. 2, pp. 165-8.
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John Newbery published a similar tale, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, in 1744. JJ 's work did not reach actual print (as...
Publishing Hester Mulso Chapone
Hester Mulso (later HMC ) may have contributed the essay in The World published on 3 July 1755. A contemporary hand in the Bodleian copy (Per 2705 d. 307) ascribes this essay clearly to Mr...
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
The Bodleian Library has recently acquired a later edition of one of these tales, Vivian, with ME 's autograph revisions in ink and comments in pencil by the recipient of the volume, Mary Sneyd
Publishing Frances Browne
Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...
Publishing Elizabeth Richardson
The full title is A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters, In three Books, Composed of Prayers and Meditations, fitted for, severall times, and upon severall occasions, As also severall Prayers for each day in the...
Publishing Mary Martha Sherwood
The Nun had new editions which the Bodleian Library catalogue assigns to 1860 and 1876.
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