CK
has had stories included in collections such as Birthday Stories, edited by Haruki Murakami
, 2004; Scéalta: Short Stories by Irish Women, edited by Rebecca O'Connor
, 2006; Loved Ones, 2006...
Cultural formation
Elizabeth Burnet
EB
was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was her...
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
143
McGuckian, Medbh. On Ballycastle Beach. Revised edition, Gallery Press, 1995.
prelims
Dedications
Medbh McGuckian
MMG
published her second poetry collection, Venus and the Rain, dedicated to her mother and in memory of her mother-in-law, with Oxford University Press
.
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.
Employer
Deborah Moggach
DM
's first job after her BA was as a librarian at Oxford University Press
, 1970-72. While in Pakistan she worked as a teacher and also did freelance writing during 1972-74.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Employer
May Cannan
Instead, MC
and her sisters went to work as volunteers at Oxford University Press
, working for their father
in the place of men who had enlisted in the army. The production of OUP's general...
Employer
Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR
) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement
at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was...
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, 1990.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
She was also a teacher (at a convent at Laval in France before she went into publishing),
Guttridge, Peter. “Obituary: Jennifer Dawson”. The Independent, 27 Oct. 2000.
a social worker...
Employer
Joanna Cannan
JC
had early envisaged herself having a career as an artist, but her plans were disrupted by the First World War. In 1914 she joined the VAD
(Voluntary Aid Detachment) to work as a nurse...
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Moggach, Deborah. “Autobiography”. Deborah Moggach: About Deborah.
Family and Intimate relationships
May Cannan
One of MC
's three best friends was almost certainly Bevil Quiller-Couch
, son of her father's ex-pupil and close friend Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
. The father, called Q, was a leader in the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby
married Vivian Ridler
, although their wedding plans were much overshadowed by the international situation,
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
116
and the bridegroom had been given notice at Oxford University Press
on account of his engagement.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
114-15
Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 27. Gale Research, 1980.
27: 299
Family and Intimate relationships
Alicia D'Anvers
Her father, Samuel Clarke, a former Beadle of Law and first director of printing at Oxford University Press
(architypographus), died when his daughter Alice was still a toddler. He was celebrated for his...
Timeline
1673: Richard Allestree (probably) published with...
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
1850: John Wycliffe's complete Bible was printed...
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
111
1 March 1879: James Murray was appointed editor of the...
Writing climate item
1 March 1879
James Murray
was appointed editor of the new Oxford English Dictionary; soon afterwards he sent out 2,000 copies of a four-page invitation to volunteer readers who would collect words.
Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman. HarperCollins, 1998.
112-13
1 February 1884: The first section (A-Ant) of A New English...
Writing climate item
1 February 1884
The first section (A-Ant) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, also known as the Oxford English Dictionary, was published.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
161
1899: Oxford University Press printed the Yattendon...
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
166
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
134
1900: Notes on a Century of Typography at the University...
Writing climate item
1900
Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford
, 1693-1794 was first published.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
167
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.
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
284
1900: Oxford University Press published The Oxford...
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1907: Oxford University Press sold its last copy...
Writing climate item
1907
Oxford University Press
sold its last copy of Wilkins
' Coptic New Testament, printed in 1716 and believed to have been on sale continuously at its original price.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
128
1939: Oxford University Press published the first...
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
183
1939: Peig Sayers published in Ireland her Machtnamh...
Women writers item
1939
Peig Sayers
published in Ireland her Machtnamh seana-mhná (whose title is here transliterated from Irish script, as it is in the British Library
catalogue).
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.
1993: Following the Net Book Agreement, Random...
Writing climate item
1993
Following the Net Book Agreement, Random House
became the first publisher in Britain to install an automated packing line in warehousing at Tiptree in Essex. Though it was not a success, this did not...
27 October 2005: Margaret Walters published Feminism: A Very...
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 2nd, with revisions, Oxford University Press, 1956.
“The Wrongs of Woman: or Maria. A Fragment”. Mary; and, The Wrongs of Woman, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 69-204.
Adcock, Fleur. High Tide in the Garden. Oxford University Press, 1971.
Adcock, Fleur. Looking Back. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Adcock, Fleur. The Incident Book. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Adcock, Fleur. The Inner Harbour. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Adcock, Fleur. The Scenic Route. Oxford University Press, 1974.
Adcock, Fleur. Tigers. Oxford University Press, 1967.
Adcock, Fleur. Time-Zones. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Adrian, Arthur A. Georgina Hogarth and the Dickens Circle. Oxford University Press, 1957.
Kempe, Margery. “Prefatory Note”. The Book of Margery Kempe, edited by Hope Emily Allen et al., Oxford University Press, 1940, p. liii - lxviii.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Altick, Richard D. The Cowden Clarkes. Oxford University Press, 1948.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
Andrews, William L., and Mary Seacole. “Introduction”. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. xxvii - xxxiv.
Andrews, William L. et al., editors. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Anna Livia,. Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Anna Livia, and Kira Hall, editors. Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford University Press, 1987.