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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.
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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 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 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 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 Louise Page
Four plays by LP were collected in a volume entitled Plays: One, with her own introduction.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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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.
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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
Textual Production Annie Louisa Walker
The British Library and Bodleian Library hold only an undated edition for which they surmise a date of 1894. The unique Cornell copy of the Homespun Series edition listed by OCLC WorldCat includes publisher's advertisements.
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.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Under her current married name of Gladys Mendl, the future GHS published through Chapman and Hall her first novel, which she called The Straight Road, and dedicated to the unidentified B. I. F...
Textual Production Berta Ruck
BR 's Sir or Madam, published this spring, was one of her own favourites among her novels.
The Bodleian Library catalogue adds a question-mark to the title.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Todd, Janet, editor. British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide. Continuum, 1989.
Textual Production Germaine Greer
A series of columns written by GG for the satirical magazine Private Eye under the pseudonym Rose Blight appeared as a little book entitled The Revolting Garden, with pictures by Michael ffolkes .
Dated...
Textual Production Cecily Mackworth
Cecily Mackworth published another biography, The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt, about an intrepid Victorian traveller in Arab lands.
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.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 Aug. 2006.

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