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Travel Celia Fiennes
With time her journeys became more ambitious, and she rode a horse instead of using a coach. In about 1694 she was at Oxford, where like other tourists she printed my name severall tymes...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...
Textual Production Elizabeth Elstob
These 36 pages in folio, printed at Oxford University Press , survive in the British Library . This fragment, like the sample single homily, has parallel texts: the original Anglo-Saxon and EE 's modern English.The...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton followed her manual for women on trade unions with the more general British Trade Unions, issued by Oxford University Press in the Oxford Pamphlets on Home Affairs series.
British Book News. British Council.
(1943): no. 957
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
Oxford University Press published AS 's next poetry volume, Enough of Green.
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 Anne Stevenson
Travelling Behind Glass was published by Oxford University Press (it did not, like Correspondences, have a separate US publisher).
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Helen Waddell
She translated this poem not long after the deaths of two of her nephews in the second world war, and wrote to their mother: Just as Damon was Milton's camouflage for Charles Deodati , so...
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
These two titles were followed by The Moonlight Bride and The Wrestling Match, both commissioned by Oxford University Press to be published (April 1981) for school-children in West Africa. The Wrestling Match has been...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press .
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press.
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She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
One or more of her songs (original, not translated) appeared in The Daisy Chain, Twelve Songs of Childhood, published by Boosey in 1900. Various songs of hers have appeared separately, and as late as...
Textual Production Jan Morris
Having already edited for Oxford University Press an anthology on Oxford, one of her shaping places, JM began her writing on Wales by editing The Small Oxford Book of Wales and collaborating with illustrator Paul Wakefield
Textual Production Daisy Ashford
Some of DA 's early stories were reprinted posthumously in The Hangman's Daughter and other Stories, published by Oxford University Press .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
EF published in the USA a book of legends for children, entitled Ten Saints; London publication followed in 1953 from Oxford University Press .
British Book News. British Council.
(1953): 686-7
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
MA published another volume of poems, The Animals in That Country, this time with Oxford University Press in Toronto.
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 Dora Carrington
Carrington provided five illustrations for a school edition of Don Quixote by Cervantes , published by the Oxford University Press .
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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1673: Richard Allestree (probably) published with...

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1673

Richard Allestree (probably) published with Oxford University PressThe Ladies Calling, a religiousconduct book which became well-known and influential.

1710: Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through...

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1710

Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through the university press the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland , Antiquary.

1850: John Wycliffe's complete Bible was printed...

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1850

John Wycliffe 's complete Bible was printed for the first time by Oxford University Press .

1 March 1879: James Murray was appointed editor of the...

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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.

1 February 1884: The first section (A-Ant) of A New English...

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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.

1899: Oxford University Press printed the Yattendon...

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1899

Oxford University Press printed the Yattendon Hymnal, edited by Robert Bridges and H. Ellis Wooldridge .

1900: Notes on a Century of Typography at the University...

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1900

Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford , 1693-1794 was first published.

1900: Oxford University Press published The Oxford...

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1900

Oxford University Press published The Oxford Book of English Verse, selected and edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch .

1907: Oxford University Press sold its last copy...

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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.

1939: Oxford University Press published the first...

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1939

Oxford University Press published the first edition of Theodore Besterman 's A World Bibliography of Bibliographies.

1939: Peig Sayers published in Ireland her Machtnamh...

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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).

1993: Following the Net Book Agreement, Random...

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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...

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27 October 2005

Margaret Walters published Feminism: A Very Short Introduction in a popular series from Oxford University Press .

Texts

Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press.
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 1982.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press, 1956.
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.
Arnold, Denis, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, 1983.