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.
Bodleian Library
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Textual Production | Roma White | RW
set her novel The Island of Seven Shadows (published the year after her marriage) in modern London, Paris, and Brittany. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. |
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. |
Textual Production | Roma White | RW
re-used the exotic setting of Egypt for another novel of comic rather than melodramatic tone: Moons and Winds of Araby, which has much in common with travel writing. The date comes from the... |
Textual Production | Roma White | Probably later in 1892 The Bodleian Library
acquired its copy on 18 January 1893. |
Textual Production | Jane West | The Bodleian Library
copy has an errata slip pasted in. |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
edited a small-size volume entitled The Annual, Being a Selection from the Forget-Me-Nots, Keep-Sakes and other Annuals of the Nineteenth Century, with illustrations or Embellishments. The Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp dates from... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | W. B. Yeats
chose and edited for the publisher Macmillan
a volume of Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, in which he sought to establish her reputation. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan. vii |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
published with Williams and Norgate
another volume, entitled Selected Poems, which drew on Poems of Ten Years, Lost Planet, and Desert Wells. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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. Wellesley, Dorothy. Selected Poems. Williams and Norgate. prelims |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
published Early Light, a collection of her poems which she intended to embody everything that she wished to preserve. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. 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. |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | BW
(as Mrs. Sidney Webb) published another brief history entitled Women and the Factory Acts, number 67 of the Fabian Tracts. The Oxford University Libraries Online Catalogue of the Bodleian Library
... |
Textual Production | Mary Webb | MW
's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces. The Bodleian Library
holds a copy of this edition (with... |
Textual Production | Jane Warton | JW
's letters, which were much admired by her contemporaries, have not survived, though Joseph's letters to her are extant in the Bodleian Library
. |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | A Morning in the Bodleian, an essay written collaboratively by Mary Augusta Arnold
and her fiancé (later her husband), Thomas Humphry Ward
, was privately printed. Wilkes, Joanne. “Mary Ward as Critic of Matthew Arnold”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 453-67. 456 and n7 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | In 1868 Mary Augusta Arnold met Mark Pattison
, Rector of Lincoln College and a prominent Oxford scholar, and his wife, Emily Francis Pattison
, a former art student and connoisseur. Unconventional and bohemian, the... |
Education | Mary Augusta Ward | She embarked on a course of independent study at the Bodleian Library
, concentrating on Spanish literature and history. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 35 Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers. 105 |
Timeline
1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
Women writers item
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...
Women writers item
25 November 1982
Diana Scott
issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.
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