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...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Charles Cannan
Family and Intimate relationships
Joanna Cannan
Her father, Charles Cannan
, was an academic whose subject was classics. Having been a Fellow for twelve years before Joanna was born, he also became Dean of Trinity College, Oxford
, and in 1898...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby first met Vivian Ridler
on her twenty-fifth birthday. He then had a job with the printing side of Oxford University Press
, but was also operating a private press with a friend, David Bland
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Ridler
It was suggested to Vivian Ridler that he was indicating insufficient commitment; personal relations within the Press appear to have had something to do with it. He found another job setting up a private press...
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, p. Various pages.
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Fictionalization
Margaret Catchpole
Richard Cobbold
, son of Elizabeth Cobbold
, and rector of Wortham, published a fictionalised treatment of MC
's life in 1845 entitled The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. It was...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Jenkins
The earliest reviews, said EJ
, were not encouraging and some were both tepid and denigratory . . . because [the reviewers] felt it was a dead bore to have to read about Jane Austen...
Literary responses
Philip Larkin
Unfavourable reponse began with Dan Davin
, Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press
, who urged Larkin to reconsider some choices (and did succeed in getting him to admit a few poems by...
Literary responses
Flora Thompson
Before publication, the US manager of Oxford University Press
had written to praise the book's amazing English quality of permanence and repose, and to enquire for information about the author.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale.
Until 1929 she was an editor (and the only female editor) of the ten-volume Tudor Church Music, under the general editorship of Dr Percy Buck
and published by Oxford University Press
from 1922 to 1929.
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland.
MC
took a break from employment at Oxford University Press
to work in the cafe at Rouen station, the last stop for British soldiers in France en route for Railhead and the Front.