Bodleian Library

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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 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 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
(The rest of the edition was more ordinarily produced. Bodley 's copy, consulted for this...
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.
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, 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 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 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
Reception Anna Maria Bennett
The Critical Review thought this the first of AMB 's novels to achieve excellence. This time, it said, the intricate story was well woven (at least in the first two volumes) and the plot and...
Reception Emily Lawless
Many of EL 's papers survive, although they are scattered. The largest collection is at Marsh's Library in Dublin. Collections of her correspondence survive in the Bodleian Library , Oxford, the Hove Central Library
Reception Felicia Skene
Although FS is not widely known today, some of her books have been reprinted in the last twenty years. A selection of her work is available online from the Victorian Women Writers Project .
Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.
The...
Reception Anne Ridler
In 2001 she made a recording of four of her poems for The Poetry Archive to offer online.
The Poetry Archive. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do.
Her papers are held by the Bodleian Library .
Reception Ethel Sidgwick
A three-page typescript on ES by William Stanley Braithwaite is located at the University of Texas at Austin , and a single document in the Peace Collection at Swarthmore College . The Bodleian Library ...
Reception Dylan Thomas
At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT delivered the typed, completed manuscript...
Textual Features Frances, Lady Norton
The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven.
Grace, Lady Gethin,. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Frances, Lady Norton, Printed by D. Edwards for the author.
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The body...
Textual Features Margaret Fell
She does not argue an inherent right in all women to speak, but the right of selected women in specific circumstances to do so. In Old and New Testament equally, she says, it is evident...

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