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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Kamila Shamsie
KS has one sister, Saman Shamsie , who is two years her senior.
Shamsie, Kamila. “Writers’ Holiday Photos: Postcards from My Past”. The Guardian, 2 Aug. 2014.
She has named Saman as the person to whom she is closest.
Thorpe, Vanessa. “Kamila Shamsie: ‘Being a UK citizen makes me feel more able to take part in the conversation’”. The Guardian, 27 Aug. 2017.
Saman graduated from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania in 1992, and...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Kamila Shamsie
KS 's maternal grandmother was memoirist Jahanara Habibullah . A relative of great poets and patrons of art and literature, Habibullah was educated in Persian, Arabic, and English in addition to her native Urdu.
Shamsie, Muneeza. “Discovering the Matrix”. Critical Muslim 4, edited by Robin Yassin-Kassab et al., C. Hurst & Co, 2012, pp. 165-76.
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Family and Intimate relationships May Cannan
Her father, Charles Cannan , was a classical scholar who became Dean of Trinity College, Oxford , and Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press .
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, 2000, p. Various pages.
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He died on 15 December 1919.
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, 2000, p. Various pages.
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Family and Intimate relationships May Cannan
MC 's sister Margaret Dorothea was only just a year her elder. Her husband too became a senior Oxford University Press employee.
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, 2000, p. Various pages.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Deborah Moggach
Deborah Hough married Anthony Moggach , a publisher whom she met during her work at Oxford University Press .
“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.
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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.
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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...
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.
qtd. in
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
143-4
After publication FT received...
Occupation Sylvia Townsend Warner
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, 1997.
520
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Occupation May Cannan
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.
Critic-biographer Charlotte Fyfe

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Texts

Arnold, Denis, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, 1987, p. vii - xviii.
Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press, 1996.
Atwood, Margaret. Interlunar. Oxford University Press, 1984.
Atwood, Margaret. The Animals in That Country. Oxford University Press, 1968.
Atwood, Margaret. The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Oxford University Press, 1970.
Atwood, Margaret, editor. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Atwood, Margaret. Two-Headed Poems. Oxford University Press, 1978.
Austen, Jane. Jane Austen’s Letters. Editor Chapman, Robert William, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1952.
Austen, Jane. Jane Austen’s Letters. Editor Le Faye, Deirdre, Third, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Austen, Jane. Minor Works. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Revised, Oxford University Press, 1965.
Ballaster, Ros, editor. Fables of the East, Selected Tales 1662-1785. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Barker, Jane. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker. Editor Wilson, Carol Shiner, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Editor Humble, Nicola, Abridged, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Beilby, Raymond, and Cecil Hadgraft. Ada Cambridge, Tasma and Rosa Praed. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
Benson, Theodora. “Hot-Water-Bottle Love”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 27-36.
Bernard, Stephen, editor. The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Bernard, Stephen. Whig Literary Culture and the Canon: the Legacy of the Tonsons. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Bevington, L. S. “The Personal Aspect of Responsibility”. Mind, Vol.
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, No. 14, Oxford University Press, 1879, pp. 244-55.
Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Blake, Robert, and C. S. Nicholls, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography, 1971-1980. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Blake, William. The Poetical Works of William Blake. Editor Sampson, John, editor, Oxford University Press, 1914.