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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. “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. |
| 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 | Frances Mary Peard | The Bodleian Library
's copy of The Locked Desk has a blue cloth cover (with touches of red) showing two young people at sea in a rowing boat. The cover of a US edition pictured... |
| 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 | 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. 166 |
| Publishing | Hester Mulso Chapone | |
| Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | A Morning in the Bodleian, an essay written collaboratively by Mary Augusta Arnold
and her fiancé (later her husband), Thomas Humphry Ward
, was privately printed. Wilkes, Joanne. “Mary Ward as Critic of Matthew Arnold”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 453-67. 456 and n7 |
| 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 | Maria Edgeworth | ME
intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 287 |
| Publishing | Susanna Blamire | Before the appearance of the first volume of her work, nearly fifty years after her death, SB
was to some extent known for her songs. Often, however, the songs (some in English and some in... |
| Publishing | Lady Margaret Sackville | Fifty copies of the edition were printed on Arches French handmade paper, consecutively numbered, and signed by the Author. Sackville, Lady Margaret. 100 Little Poems. Porpoise Press. prelims |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter... |
| Publishing | Frances, Lady Norton | The full title is Misery's Virtues Whetstone, Reliquiae Gethinianae; or, Some Remains of the Most Ingenious and Excellent Lady, Lady Grace Gethin, Lately Deceased. Being a Collection of Choice Discourses, Pleasant Apothegmes, and Witty Sentences... |
| 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... |
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