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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...
Textual Production Angela Thirkell
AT published with Oxford University Press a memoir entitled Three Houses.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
73
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 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 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During the 1930s and 40s FT worked at several unpublished novels.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
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....
Literary responses Flora Thompson
Before publication, the US manager of Oxford University Press had written to praise the book's amazing English quality of permanence and repose, and to enquire for information about the author.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale.
143-4
After publication FT received...
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....
Textual Production Helen Waddell
She translated this poem not long after the deaths of two of her nephews in the second world war, and wrote to their mother: Just as Damon was Milton's camouflage for Charles Deodati , so...
Occupation Sylvia Townsend Warner
Until 1929 she was an editor (and the only female editor) of the ten-volume Tudor Church Music, under the general editorship of Dr Percy Buck and published by Oxford University Press from 1922 to 1929.
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland.
520
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora.
14
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
400
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
285
She had...

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H. D.,. The Flowering of the Rod. Oxford University Press, 1946.
H. D.,. The Walls Do Not Fall. Oxford University Press, 1944.
H. D.,. Tribute to the Angels. Oxford University Press, 1945.
Haight, Amanda. Anna Akhmatova : A Poetic Pilgrimage. Oxford University Press, 1976.
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
Haight, Gordon S., and Keith Alexander McKenzie. “Introduction”. Edith Simcox and George Eliot, Oxford University Press, 1961, p. xi - xviii.
Hamilton, Ian, editor. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Hancock, Geoff. “Mavis Gallant”. Canadian Writers at Work, Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 79-126.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
Hardy, Thomas. Our Exploits at West Poley. Oxford University Press, 1952.
Harper, Frances E. W. Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper. Editor Graham, Maryemma, Oxford University Press, 1988.
Harris, Jocelyn, and Samuel Richardson. “Chronology”. Sir Charles Grandison, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. xliii - xlv.
Harris, Sharon M., and Judith Sargent Murray. “Introduction”. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Sharon M. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. xv - xliv.
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Haywood, Eliza. Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood. Editor Backscheider, Paula R., Oxford University Press, 1999, http://HSS.
Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 1981.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Hildegarde of Bingen,. Liber vitae meritorum. Translator Hoseski, Bruce W., Oxford University Press, 1997.
Hildegarde of Bingen,. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Translators Baird, Joseph L. and Radd K. Ehrman, Vol.
volume i
, Oxford University Press, 1994.
Sharp, Jane. “Introduction”. The Midwives Book, edited by Elaine Hobby, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. xi - xxxi.
Hodgson, Norma, and Cyprian Blagden, editors. The Notebook of Thomas Bennet and Henry Clements (1686-1719). Oxford University Press, 1956.
Holcroft, Thomas, and William Hazlitt. Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft. Oxford University Press, 1926.
Holme, Constance. The Wisdom of the Simple and Other Stories. Oxford University Press, 1937.
Beeton, Isabella. “Introduction”. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, edited by Nicola Humble, Abridged, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. vii - xxxvii.
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.