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Textual Production Elizabeth Stone
Elizabeth Stone published God's Acre; or, Historical Notices relating to Churchyards.
One of the two copies in the Bodleian has a new leaf replacing the original pages 187-8, which were cancelled.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1599 (19 June 1858): 778-81
Textual Production Rose Allatini
Rose Allatini chose a new pseudonym, Lucian Wainwright (but the same publisher), for the first of her two novels this year, entitled Waters' Meet. Later in the year came Girl of Good Family...
Textual Production Sarah Chapone
Some of SC 's letters remain at Gloucestershire Record Office , in the Bodleian Library , and among Richardson's correspondence in the Victoria and Albert Museum . Her surviving letters to John Wesley are printed...
Textual Production Julia Frankau
JF published a new Frank Danby novel, Pigs in Clover, after a break of fifteen years (during which her children were growing up).
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production May Laffan
According to scholar Helena Kelleher Kahn , the first American edition of ML 's realist novel Christy Carew appeared in 1878, although standard library catalogues record no edition before 1880.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
137
Kahn stands almost alone...
Textual Production Anna Trapnel
The Bodleian Library holds the resulting 1,000-page printed folio, whose title-page is missing.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge.
75
The caption title on page 1 reads: Eighth month, 11 day, being the first day of the week, at nine of...
Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
RMA 's novel Wynne of Windwhistle followed another familiar romance pattern: of the hero who at first appears an ogre but is revealed to be good and loving.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Nancy Cunard
John Lucas edited from the typescript in the Bodleian LibraryPoems of Nancy Cunard, for Nottingham Trent University 's Trent Editions.
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Cunard, Nancy. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Sandeep Parmar, Carcanet, p. xi - xli.
xxxvii
Textual Production Sarah Grand
SG first appeared in print with her novel Two Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots.
Scholars like Gillian Kersley , Ann Heilmann ...
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL 's anonymous Sir Edward Grey, K. G. (a Liberal and then Foreign Secretary, later first Viscount Grey of Fallodon ), 1915, is in 2008 ascribed to her in the Bodleian Library but not in...
Textual Production Elizabeth Moody
The full title is A Sketch of Modern France. In a series of letters to a lady of fashion. Written in the years 1796 and 1797. In his preface Christopher Lake Moody vouches for...
Textual Production Sarah Savage
She intended it as a record of the workings of my heart.
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. Holdsworth and Ball.
x
Such a record was important in what Patricia Crawford has described as the family ideology of the Henrys. Diaries by SS 's...
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.
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Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
MMB published her second poetry collection within two years, Vignettes: in Verse
The Bodleian Library has no copy of this publication.
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Textual Production Fanny Holcroft
This work is not held by the British Library , the Bodleian , or Cambridge University Library . OCLC WorldCat lists only four copies of it: three in the USA and one in the National Library of Scotland

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1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...

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1838

Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria 's Scottish ancestry.

1840: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented...

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1840

Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented the calotype system of photography.

15 September 1870: Following the proclamation on the 4th of...

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15 September 1870

Following the proclamation on the 4th of September of the French Third Republic, the Prussian army besieged Paris.

1881: A religious novel published this year with...

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1881

A religiousnovel published this year with 1882 on its title-page, Nellie; or Seeking Goodly Pearls by Mrs Meredith, has been wrongly ascribed to Louisa Anne Meredith , but is actually by the Evangelical Christian Susanna Meredith .

By September 1887: William Walker published at Aberdeen The...

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By September 1887

William Walker published at AberdeenThe Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860, a history of poetry in Aberdeenshire, which had already appeared serially in the Herald and Weekly Free Press.
The volume is dated from...

1895: Falconer Madan, librarian of the Bodleian...

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1895

Falconer Madan , librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, published two important studies of printing presses.

25 March 1901: Sarah Angelina Acland, pioneer of colour...

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25 March 1901

Sarah Angelina Acland , pioneer of colour photography, showed her first exhibition of completed slides to a meeting of the Oxford Camera Club . She used the new Sanger-Shepherd process, which dated from October 1899...

By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...

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By 27 September 1905

Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young : The First Book of Geometry.

31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...

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31 October 1910

Frances Olive Underhill , a graduate of Royal Holloway College , was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian : the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...

By 28 November 1934: The young Flora Robson, in A Letter to a...

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By 28 November 1934

The young Flora Robson , in A Letter to a Young Actress, contributed as a preface to Ladies Only by Muriel and Sydney Box , provided a fascinating account of women's part in amateur...

Early 1936: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by...

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Early 1936

The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts (who was put forward for this task by T. S. Eliot ), set out to define the modern movement, not just chronologically but according...

March 1960: In response to an appeal from the African...

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March 1960

In response to an appeal from the African National Congress (and following Harold Macmillan 's famous winds of change speech of 3 February), a Boycott Committee against South African produce was established in Britain...

18 September 1961: Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the...

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18 September 1961

Dag Hammarskjöld , Secretary-General of the United Nations , was killed in a plane crash near Ndola in the then Northern Rhodesia

: Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published...

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Spring1965

Meic Stephens founded Poetry Wales, published at Merthyr Tydfil, partly in order to allow English-language poets to contribute to the revitalised nationalist culture of the period.

25 November 1982: Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology...

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25 November 1982

Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.

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