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Textual Production Marie de France
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that MF's latest work by date is her collection of 102 Fables in the manner of Aesop , translated into French from the English of someone called Alfred...
Textual Production Anne Ridler
It had been commissioned by Martin Browne , the lessee of the Mercury Theatre, who, inspired by the success of T. S. Eliot 's Murder in the Cathedral, set out to encourage poets to...
Textual Production Melesina Trench
The Bodleian Library copy of the original edition has numerous manuscript additions by the author. In 1837 a new edition of this work was published by a female friend of MT who had met with...
Textual Production Mary Bryan
Sir Walter Scott had encouraged her from poetry into novel-writing. Unless the condition of her eyes improved miraculously during the sixteen months before publication, she must have composed by dictating to an amanuensis. Copies of...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
What she translated was the accounts of countries and continents from Ortelius 's Le Théatre du monde, or rather from L'Epitome du Théatre du monde, an atlas which interleaves its maps with pages...
Textual Production Jane Johnson
JJ 's papers are divided between the Bodleian Library (which also holds the archives of several of her relations) and the Lilly Library .
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press.
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“Catalogue of the papers of Jane Johnson of Olney, Buckinghamshire (1706-59) and of her family, 17th-19th cent”. Bodleian Library. Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
“Johnson, J. MSS”. The Lilly Library Manuscript Collections.
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
Her papers are widely scattered. In England the British Library , the Bodleian Library , the John Rylands Library , and Berkshire County Library hold important material; so do Harvard University Library and the Huntington Library
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.
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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 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.
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.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Rose Allatini
Rose Allatini published the third of her Lucian Wainwright novels, Oracle, this time with Methuen ; its title-page mentions her two earlier books under this name.
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 Mary Cholmondeley
Letters and other papers of MC 's survive in the British Library , the Bodleian Library , and Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service . Many of her works have become available in...
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 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.
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Textual Production Louise Page
Four plays by LP were collected in a volume entitled Plays: One, with her own introduction.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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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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