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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 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 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 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 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.
xix
PG wrote it at a time when India—and specifically Calcutta—was...
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 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...
Publishing Buchi Emecheta
After the very successful launch of The Bride Price, BE considered changing to a different publisher. She suspected that the small firm of Allison and Busby could not afford to publish any one author...
Publishing Flora Thompson
During the 1930s and 40s FT worked at several unpublished novels. She never submitted any to a publisher, but she struggled with Gates of Eden, as well as doing her work for the Peverel Society

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Cather, Willa. Alexander’s Bridge. Editor Lindemann, Marilee, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Chandra, Sudhir. Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law, and Women’s Rights. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Chothia, Jean, editor. The New Woman and Other Emancipated Woman Plays. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Chowdhry, Prem. Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Chudleigh, Mary, Lady. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Editor Ezell, Margaret J. M., Oxford University Press, 1993.
Clancy, Laurie. A Reader’s Guide to Australian Fiction. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Clark, Beverly Lyon, and Evelyn Sharp. “Introduction”. The Making of a Schoolgirl, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 3-23.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Clough, Arthur Hugh. The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. Editor Norrington, Arthur L. P., Oxford University Press, 1968.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poetical Works [of] Coleridge, including poems and versions of poems herein published for the first time. Editor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Coleridge, Sara, and Henry Reed. Sara Coleridge and Henry Reed. Editor Broughton, Leslie Nathan, Oxford University Press, 1937.
Connolly, S. J., editor. The Oxford Companion to Irish History. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Connors, Kathleen, and Sally Bayley, editors. Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Copeland, B. Jack. Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Codebreaking Computers. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Cotton, John et al. The Crystal Zoo. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Courtney, Janet E. The Adventurous Thirties: A Chapter in the Women’s Movement. Oxford University Press, 1937.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Craik, Dinah Mulock, and Cora Kaplan. Olive; and, The Half-Caste. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Culler, Jonathan, and Charles Baudelaire. “Introduction”. The Flowers of Evil, translated by. James McGowan and James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xix - xxix.
da Costa, Emilia Viotti. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Dacre, Charlotte. Zofloya, or, The Moor. Editor Michasiw, Kim Ian, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Dalziel, Margaret, and Duncan Isles, editors. “Introduction, Chronology, and Appendix”. The Female Quixote, Oxford University Press, 1970.