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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, 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 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 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 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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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
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 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, p. vii - xli.
xxxix
which SF was planning in October 1748, or that may have been something different that...
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 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, pp. 317-44.
327
When an illustrated edition did appear...
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 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, pp. 181-5.
181
in a fast-flowing hand...
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.
111
Publishing Joanna Cannan
High Table was reprinted in 1987 as one of Oxford University Press 's Twentieth-Century Classics, with an introduction by Anthony Quinton . Quinton remarks that Cannan's Oxford childhood gave her the best qualifications possible...

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Boswell, James, and John David Fleeman. Life of Johnson. Editor Chapman, Robert William, 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 Gander’s?’: Female Writers in Johnson’s Dictionary”. Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Dictionary</span>, 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.
Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Wuthering Heights</span>; 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 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. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Cannon, John, editor. The Oxford Companion to British History. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Joseph Neuberg, 1848-1862. Editor Scudder, Townsend, Oxford University Press, 1931.
Cather, Willa. Alexander’s Bridge. Editor Lindemann, Marilee, Oxford University Press, 1997.