Bodleian Library

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...

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 .

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. The body...

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...

RA 's novel of this year, Blue Danube, was again issued under the name of Eunice Buckley.

GC published a poetry volume, Letter from a Far Country, whose title poem had been first written for radio, and broadcast in 1978 as a half-hour programme.

PF published a novel of London theatre life, Ask Me No More: its three books are set in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.

The former Gladys Mendl, now GHS , first used a new pseudonym, Henrietta Leslie, on a novel called Where Runs the River?, published by J. M. Dent .

Pandora Press issued On Gender and Writing, a collection of essays by women and men edited by MW .

The Bodleian copy is Vet. A 4 f. 438 (9). Harvard has recently acquired a copy of an otherwise unknown Dublin edition with a different title: A True Tale to be Added to Mr. Gay's...

From learning the Welsh language, CG moved on to studying its earlier form: what is now called Middle Welsh, together with medieval Welsh history and other literature dating from those years. From her researches sprang...

Cecily Mackworth published another biography, The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt, about an intrepid Victorian traveller in Arab lands.

She quoted Lyttelton on the title-page (which is dated 1810), and dedicated the book (as her first) to her mother. She also supplied it with a prefatory To the Reader and a Conclusion. The...

ES supplied a single-page foreword to the pamphlet Education for Life: The Training of the Girl Worker by Julie Eve Vajkai , printed for Save the Children at the Weardale Press .

This 8-page tract in tiny type, signed with her initials, may be her first. It ushers in the first of her five most productive years. In publishing it she was obeying a divine calling: she...