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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 Angela Thirkell
Hamish Hamilton did not want this novel, so far outside her usual run, but Oxford University Press accepted it, and found that advance sales compelled them to reprint it even before publication.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977.
111
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 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 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 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 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.
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which SF was planning in October 1748, or that may have been something different that...
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 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.
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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...

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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.