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Textual Production Susan Hill
SH published The Woman in Black, a novel or novella or ghost story with atmospheric illustrations by John Lawrence , which five years later went on to enjoy immense success as an adaptation for...
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 Jane Marcet
Though this is a marked departure from JM 's science-conversation format, it shares her instructional impulse, containing accounts of, for instance, the production of salt in Abyssinia. It could plausibly be ascribed to her. The...
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
While the Bodleian Library copy is perfect, the copy at the University of Alberta has been misprinted in such a way as to shuffle early pages out of sequence. The title-page, list of contents, two...
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 Margaret Minifie
Though she did not set her name to this novel, her listing of an earlier title which did name her leaves her authorship in no doubt. Nevertheless, as The English Novel 1770-1829 notes, this too...
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 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.
Textual Production Julia Frankau
JF , as Frank Danby, published The Heart of a Child, a novel about a slum child's rise through theatrical stardom into upper-class marriage.
Dated from Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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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.
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Such a record was important in what Patricia Crawford has described as the family ideology of the Henrys. Diaries by SS 's...
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
Critic Paul Douglass says this manuscript is missing from among the Byron papers in the Bodleian Library .
Douglass, Paul. “Playing Byron: Lady Caroline Lamb’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Glenarvon</span> and the Music of Isaac Nathan”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, pp. 1-24.
1n1
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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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Ruby M. Ayres
In Life Steps InRMA departed from her common practice, producing a romantic novel of star-crossed love instead of her usual happy ending.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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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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