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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, 1998, p. vii - xli.
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which SF was planning in October 1748, or that may have been something different that...
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.
181
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...
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 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...
Publishing Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW deposited at the Oxford Philosophical Library her completed manuscript entitled A History of the Concept of Time, a survey of outstanding philosophers from the time of the Greeks onwards.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
285
She had...
Publishing Lady Louisa Stuart
Her Notes to John Heneage Jesse 's George Selwyn and his Contemporaries were posthumously edited from her manuscript by W. S. Lewis , and five hundred copies were published by Oxford University Press at New...
Publishing Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
The editor, John C. A. Rathmell , went on to produce for a Ph.D. thesis a more exact and less popular edition.
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979, http://BLC.
103
In 2009 Oxford University Press issued a World's Classics edition of The...
Publishing Marie Stopes
Ross McKibbin provided an introduction for the thirtieth edition, published by Oxford University Press in 2004.
Publishing Anne Sexton
AS 's Selected Poems was issued in England by Oxford University Press , whose editor Jon Stallworthy had approached her as a step in its campaign to challenge Faber and Faber for supremacy as the...
Publishing Elizabeth Elstob
The first of these works, dedicated to Caroline, Princess of Wales , is sometimes called the first grammar of Anglo-Saxon; in fact Elstob was preceded by her friend and patron George Hickes , who published...
Publishing Phebe Gibbes
The first edition of this novel, advertised for sale in May and priced at seven shillings and sixpence, is now extremely rare.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 473
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - lvii.
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PG wrote it at a time when India—and specifically Calcutta—was...
Publishing Anne Sexton
She was well on in assembling this collection in mid-June 1965.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
240-1
She fought a battle with her US publisher, Houghton Mifflin , over a jacket she disliked, and secured instead the use of a...

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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.