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Occupation Flora Annie Steel
During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute (whose earliest...
Textual Production Joanna Southcott
The Bodleian Library gives its full title as Sound an Alarm in my Holy Mountain. This will treat on the meaning of the sealing.
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Textual Production Ethel Smyth
Some of her music manuscripts are preserved in the Bodleian Library .
Jones, Peter Ward. “Silent harmonies”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 1, pp. 20-2.
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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 Constance Smedley
CS published another novel, Redwing (which she had intended to call The People Mimsy Knew).
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Smedley, Constance. Redwing. George Allen and Unwin.
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Textual Production Constance Smedley
CS 's next book, covering much the same ground as her previous one but this time for younger readers, was Grace Darling and her Islands, published with the Religious Tract Society .
Dated from...
Textual Production Constance Smedley
Other novels that CS produced almost concurrently with her trilogy were The Emotions of Martha, 1911 (issued through the Religious Tract Society and dedicated to Margaret Armfield ), Ruth's Marriage, 1912 (also through...
Reception Felicia Skene
Although FS is not widely known today, some of her books have been reprinted in the last twenty years. A selection of her work is available online from the Victorian Women Writers Project .
Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.
The...
Textual Production Edith J. Simcox
This text, the only manuscript of EJS 's known to survive, remains in the Bodleian Library (shelfmark MS Eng. misc. d. 494), which also houses letters to her and her brothers from the Oxford don...
Textual Production Ethel Sidgwick
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 .
Publication is dated...
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 ...
Publishing Mary Martha Sherwood
The Nun had new editions which the Bodleian Library catalogue assigns to 1860 and 1876.
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Author summary Mary Martha Sherwood
MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
The manuscript of Frankenstein, now in the Bodleian Library and featuring the hands of both MS and her husband , forms the centrepiece of the Shelley-Godwin Archive (http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/), whose first phase was opened to...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
During this year MS was reading works by both her mother and her father, and many publications for children.
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span&gt”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 385-11.
388, 389-90
She tried hard to get her plays published. She submitted both in 1824 to...

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