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Publishing Marie Corelli
This novel was released as a single volume costing six shillings, instead of the more traditional and expensive three-volume format.
Mayer, Howard A. “Sorrows of Satan, The (Corelli)”. The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture, edited by George A. Cevasco, Garland Publishing, 1993, pp. 573-5.
573
Its full title was The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One...
Publishing Eleanor Farjeon
One spur to this late work was Farjeon's indignation at a BBC radio programme in 1953 about Thomas, which was repeated despite her protest after the first broadcast. The programme maintained that she had been...
Publishing Constance Holme
Oxford University Press 's World's Classics series, which had already re-issued all of CH 's eight novels, published The Wisdom of the Simple and Other Stories by her.
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.
Publishing Tabitha Tenney
TT dedicated her work to all Columbian Young Ladies who read Novels & Romances, and headed it with a Latin proverb translated as Learn to be wise by others harm, / and you shall do...
Publishing Eva Mary Bell
In 1918 EMB contributed to Eileen Mant 's A Letter to the Loyal Women of India, published in Bombay by Oxford University Press as number 8 in their War Pamphlets series.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Mary Shelley
MS was a lifelong diarist. The diaries which she wrote during 1814-15, jointly with her future husband, were later destroyed.
Coleman, Deirdre. “Claire Clairmont and Mary Shelley: identification and rivalry within the ’tribe of the Otaheite philosophers’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 309-28.
317
He recorded in fairly abbreviated style the premature birth of her first baby; equally...
Publishing Constance Holme
Late in life CH wrote, it is not easy for a woman to be the simple and natural devotée of an art as a man can. I have had to be house wife, agent's...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her...
Publishing Lucy Hutchinson
The editor of the first, lavishly-produced edition of this history recommended it particularly to female readers, as more entertaining than most novels. He also silently cut from it about 9,000 words, besides tinkering with the...
Publishing Evelyn Sharp
It was only a few years since Miss Spark had provided moral backing for Sharp's determination to leave home and earn her own living. As well as appearing alone as number two in a series...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz . It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xxxix
which SF was planning in October 1748, or that may have been something different that...
Publishing Rosemary Sutcliff
Soon after the war, RS began on a book designed for children, a retelling of a dozen or so Celtic and Saxon legends: stories of heroes like Beowulf, Cuchulain (whose stories she told more fully...
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
Despite the historical research, and setting aside later attention to getting dialect words exactly right, EG penned this work, says her biographer Jenny Uglow , page after page, without correction,
Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 181-5.
181
in a fast-flowing hand...
Publishing Charlotte Lennox
In about 1773-4 CL planned a subscribers' edition with illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds , Francesco Bartolozzi , and Giovanni Battista Cipriani ; but this came to nothing.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
327
When an illustrated edition did appear...
Publishing Rosemary Sutcliff
RS also published five adult historical novels, two of them during this decade: Lady in Waiting, 1956, and The Rider of the White Horse, 1959. For these she chose a different publisher, Hodder and Stoughton

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David, Deirdre. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Davidson, Cathy N., and Tabitha Tenney. “Foreword”. Female Quixotism, edited by Jean Nienkamp et al., Oxford University Press, 1992, p. v - vii.
Davidson, Cathy N., and Hannah Webster Foster. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Coquette, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. vii - xxiv.
Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Davidson, Cathy N., and Linda Wagner-Martin, editors. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1995.
De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Editor Lindop, Grevel, Oxford University Press, 1985.
Dear, Ian C. B., and Michael Richard Daniell Foot, editors. The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Dearmer, Percy. Songs of Praise. Oxford University Press, 1960.
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Editor Landa, Louis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Demers, Patricia, and Robert Gordon Moyles, editors. From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children’s Literature to 1850. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. “Chacmool”. Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, edited by David Carrasco, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 168-9.
Dickens, Mary Angela. “An Idyll of an Omnibus”. Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Kate Flint, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 410-22.
Doughty, Oswald. A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1960.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Drabble, Margaret. The Tradition of Women’s Fiction: Lectures in Japan. Editor Suga, Yakuko, Oxford University Press, 1985.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, 1978.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, 2002, p. xxi; 406 pp.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Edgeworth, Maria. Belinda. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Edgeworth, Maria. The Absentee. Editors McCormack, William John and Kim Walker, Oxford University Press, 1988.