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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 Mary Jones
Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University .
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
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Textual Features John Millington Synge
It was his first three-act play. Like Riders to the Sea, it drew its inspiration from the folklore of the Aran Islands. It was published at the end of the same year, in...
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...
Textual Features Dorothy Boulger
Many of them flag through their titles the fact that their pivotal roles belong to women, in a way that suggests they were intended for a mostly female audience. Such titles include two which look...
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.
Gethin, Grace, Lady. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Norton, Frances, Lady, Printed by D. Edwards for the author, 1699.
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Textual Features May Crommelin
This is a kind of specialised visitors' book. Its pages are forms to be filled in by the owner's friends, giving name and address, where and when they met the owner, and under the heading...
Textual Production Dorothea Gerard
DG published another novel, entitled The Conquest of London, about the struggles of four sisters to make a life for themselves despite their genteel poverty.
The date comes from the stamp in the Bodleian Library copy.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Denise Levertov
She set a high rate of production over the next few years. In 1958 came both Five Poems (with illustrations by Jess Collins , the male partner of Robert Duncan ), published by White Rabbit Press
Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
Forty-one years after the appearance of her first novel, RMA issued her last, Love Without Wings. Dark Gentleman had appeared by the end of May in the same year.
Dark Gentleman was acquired by...
Textual Production Nancy Cunard
In 1943 NC began to work on collecting her poetry for an edition, as advised by Edward John Thompson , a fellow political radical and poetry editor for Benn publishers. The edition came to nothing...
Textual Production Roma White
In a novel set in Egypt and entitled Backsheesh, RW presented an Englishman who marries an Islam ic woman.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Textual Production Charlotte Smith
CS firmly denied writing D'Arcy: A Novel, hitherto listed as published at Dublin this year, in an edition bearing a version of her name. Recent scholarship indicates that she was telling the truth.
This...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
This rare little work, held by the Université Laval and the University of Alberta Library (courtesy of the constituent Collège Saint-Jean ), is not listed in the catalogues of the British Library , Bodleian Library
Textual Production May Edginton
After a writing career of more than forty-five years, ME published her last novel, Two Lost Sheep, under this usual pseudonym.
The Bodleian catalogue gives this title as Two Lost Sleep.
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.

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