Bodleian Library

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Publishing Katharine S. Macquoid
Her husband, already a regular contributor, illustrated some of the children's poems and stories she published there under the pseudonym of Gilbert Percy (made up of the names of her sons). These were collected in...
Publishing Emily Gerard
EG published with Digby, Long and Co. of London an intriguingly-titled novella, The Tragedy of a Nose, which occupies about two-thirds of the volume it shares with a tale entitled A Brief Delirium...
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The first edition, unlisted in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in the Bodleian Library . Miami University holds a second edition published in 1803 at York, with illustrations from Thomas Bewick
Publishing Elizabeth Ashbridge
This edition seems not to survive, since it is unlisted (in 2007) in the English Short Title Catalogue or Early English Books Online.Reprints, however, included one published by W. Alexander of York as part...
Publishing Caroline Frances Cornwallis
This book (attributed by the Bodleian Library catalogue to CFC , unlike the second and third in the series) was reprinted by Lea and Blanchard in Philadelphia, 1846. A revised second edition was issued...
Publishing Frances Mary Peard
The Bodleian Library 's copy of The Locked Desk has a blue cloth cover (with touches of red) showing two young people at sea in a rowing boat. The cover of a US edition pictured...
Publishing Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana 's most famous poem, The Passage of Mount St Gothard or The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard, was written while she was travelling in the Alps in 1792 with Lady Elizabeth...
Publishing Harriet Corp
HC 's Talents Improved; or, The Philanthopist, now known not to have been her earliest published work, mentions on its title-page her authorship of Interesting Conversations. The Bodleian 's copy (apparently the first...
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
Publishing Hélène Barcynska
On the title-page of Pretty Dear MB's pseudonym is The Countess Barcynska with an accent on the n of Barcynska. Its spring publication is mentioned in a list of new Hurst and Blackett books bound...
Publishing Elizabeth Helme
Helme's Translator's Preface explains that she has replaced Campe's group of pupils with a whole family and their parents, observing that children will find that more interesting.
Campe, Joachim Heinrich. Columbus. Translator Helme, Elizabeth, Sampson Low.
1: iii
She praises the explorers for their...
Publishing P. D. James
The Bodleian Library in Oxford published a highly personal work of criticism by PDJ entitled Talking about Detective Fiction, whose proceeds James donated to support the library's activities.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
“P D James donates royalties from new book to the Bodleian Library”. Oxford Thinking. The Campaign for the University of Oxford.
Publishing Cecil Frances Alexander
Two more collections of hymns followed later: Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, in 1853, and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for Village Schools, in 1858.
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.
CFA 's various books of hymns went through multiple...
Publishing Jane Austen
Volume the Third was bought by the British Library . The incomplete manuscript of The Watsons was bought at this sale by a private buyer who placed it on deposit at Queen Mary and Westfield College
Publishing Lady Margaret Sackville
Fifty copies of the edition were printed on Arches French handmade paper, consecutively numbered, and signed by the Author.
Sackville, Lady Margaret. 100 Little Poems. Porpoise Press.
prelims
(The rest of the edition was more ordinarily produced. Bodley 's copy, consulted for this...

Timeline

August 2005: Google's plans for massive digitization of...

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August 2005

Google 's plans for massive digitization of printed books for reading online were temporarily halted by threats of litigation in the USA.

19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...

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19 February 2007

Sarah Thomas , an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University 's Bodleian Library (opened on 8 November 1602).

7 March 2008: Julian Blackwell, head of Blackwell's bookshop...

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7 March 2008

Julian Blackwell , head of Blackwell's bookshop and publishing firm, made a five million pound donation to Oxford University 's Bodleian Library , the largest ever to a university library in the UK.

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