Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| 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
... |
| 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. 169 |
| 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 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 | 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. A3r |
| 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 Production | Hélène Barcynska | HB
published a third volume of memoirs, The Miracle Stone of Wales, a semi-mystical work which is classified in the catalogue of the Bodleian Library
as mental healing. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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 | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire
re-issued her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
's The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard at Paris with her own Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland. Bess's work... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | W. B. Yeats
chose and edited for the publisher Macmillan
a volume of Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, in which he sought to establish her reputation. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan, 1936. vii |
| Textual Production | Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke | She went on working at them later, developing her skills as she went on, and doing a great deal of revision. Her critic Gary F. Waller
believes that she kept two working drafts simultaneously in... |
| Textual Production | E. B. C. Jones | EBCJ
dedicated her final novel, Morning and Cloud, to Phyllis Hamerton
, with quotations from Edwin Muir
and William Blake
. Dated by the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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 | Edith Mary Moore | A religious historical novel entitled Dismas, published through the firm of John Heritage
by Mary Moore, seems unlikely to be by EMM
. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | MB
published her second and best-known novel, The Big Switch, a satirical post-nuclear fantasy or science fiction about a future with women in command. Dated from Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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 | Ephelia | The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate.The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey |
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