Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
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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. 169 |
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. A3r |
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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