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Publishing Anne Sexton
Many of the poems had appeared in periodicals from about a year before this. Jon Stallworthy , who was offered the manuscript for Oxford University Press , was dubious about its quality and stipulated some...
Publishing Flora Thompson
She submitted her work in fifteen chapters to Oxford University Press (no doubt for reasons of local loyalty), describing it as a fiction. Since the press did not deal with fiction they called it autobiography....
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
This work is dedicated To the English girls to whom fate may assign the task of being house-mothers in Our Eastern Empire.
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Hickman, Katie. Daughters of Britannia: The Life and Times of Diplomatic Wives. Flamingo, 2000.
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Steel and Gardiner called themselves on the title-page two twenty year's [sic]...
Publishing Anne Sexton
Mindful that Jon Stallworthy of OUP had expressed increasing reservations about her work (he thought that celebrity status was damaging it), AS withdrew from Oxford and offered this volume for British publicaton to D. J. Enright
Publishing Ann Lady Fanshawe
This edition included valuable biographical material, but was surpassed by that of John Loftis for Oxford University Press , 1979, which for the first time accurately reproduces the text of the British Library manuscript. It...
Publishing Thomas Hardy
TH 's single work for children (a story for boys), Our Exploits at West Poley, was serialised at Boston in The Household Magazine, and subsequently published by the Oxford University Press in 1952.
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press, 1954.
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Publishing Olive Schreiner
Another collection of her letters, edited by Richard Rive with historical research done by Russell Martin , was published in 1987 in South Africa by David Philip , and world-wide in 1988 by Oxford University Press .
Publishing H. D.
These appeared in London and New York from Oxford University Press (the first in 1944 and the second and third in 1945 and 1946 respectively). The first remains unlisted in the OCLC Worldcat.
Publishing Flora Thompson
She worked on this second volume through various obstacles. In September 1939 she juggled her writing with making blackout curtains; then she and her husband moved house; and by summer 1940 there were bombers overhead....
Publishing Martin Ross
Edith Somerville , rising ninety, received the news that Oxford University Press was reprinting The Real Charlotte (by herself and MR ) in the World's Classics series.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Publishing Felicia Hemans
In 1914 Oxford University Press published FH 's collected works. After this her works went out of print until the 1970s. Several Garland reprints with introductions by Donald H. Reiman have appeared, as have editions...
Publishing Eleanor Farjeon
Oxford University Press re-issued this book in 1956, replacing Clare Leighton 's illustrations with others by Dodie Masterman , and beginning a series of reprints of EF 's early works for children.
Publishing Angela Thirkell
About the time of her memoir Three Houses, AT showed some friends and acquaintances a draft fiction entitled Three Sillies. E. V. Lucas told her she had distinct talent although the typescript in...
Publishing Carola Oman
The Menin Road was the road leading east out of Ypres; it was notorious as a scene of desolation and ruin. She addressed her dedicatees, in memory of days we served together in England...
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.
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Its full title was The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One...

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Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. Oxford University Press, 1939, p. 337 pp.
Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795, and John David Fleeman. Life of Johnson. Editor Chapman, Robert William, New edition, Oxford University Press, 1970.
Bowen, Elizabeth. Anthony Trollope: A New Judgement. Oxford University Press, 1946.
Bowen, Elizabeth. “The Mulberry Tree”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 37-51.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. John Marchmont’s Legacy. Editors Sasaki, Toru and Norman Page, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. The Doctor’s Wife. Editor Pykett, Lyn, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Brewer, Charlotte. “A Goose Quill or a Ganders?: Female Writers in Johnsons Dictionary”. Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum Dictionary edited by Freya Johnston and Lynda Mugglestone, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 120-39.
Bridgman, Richard. Gertrude Stein in Pieces. Oxford University Press, 1970.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Briggs, Asa. The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. Oxford University Press, 1961, 5 vols.
Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editors Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights; Extract from the Prefatory Note to Selections from Poems by Ellis Bell”. Wuthering Heights, edited by Professor Ian Jack and Professor Ian Jack, Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 359 - 65; 365.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Editor Jack, Professor Ian, Oxford University Press, 1981.
Burney, Frances. Camilla. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, Oxford University Press, 1972.
Burney, Frances. Cecilia. Editors Sabor, Peter and Margaret Anne Doody, Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Haggard, Sir H. Rider. “Introduction”. King Solomon’s Mines, edited by Dennis Butts, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Byatt, A. S., editor. The Oxford Book of English Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Caine, Barbara. English Feminism, 1780-1980. Oxford University Press, 1997, http://U of G.
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Camfield, Gregg, editor. The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Cannan, Joanna. High Table. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Cannon, John, and Robert Crowcroft, editors. A Dictionary of British History. Third, Oxford University Press, 2015.
Cannon, John, editor. The Oxford Companion to British History. Revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Oxford University Press, 1992, 2 vols.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Joseph Neuberg, 1848-1862. Editor Scudder, Townsend, Oxford University Press, 1931.