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Employer Elizabeth Bishop
Throughout her life, EB 's employment at anything other than writing was never more than sporadic. On graduation in 1934 she taught briefly at the USA School of Writing (an exploitative institution about which she...
Literary responses Lady Mary Wroth
Some early readers registered in their copies their dissatisfaction with the non-happy ending. The Library of Congress copy bears a pencilled-in couplet addressed to readers, and the UCLA copy a paragraph offering, in direct contradiction...
Performance of text Rumer Godden
RG was critical of the distaste with which English writers Osbert and Edith Sitwell or Vita Sackville-West had regarded their American lecture audiences. About her coast-to-coast tour with her husband she later wrote, I took...
Publishing Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
The book was reprinted in 1991 and a version of the 1845 Philadelphia edition is available online from the US Library of Congress as part of their American Memory Collection.
Publishing Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
This full text is available online from the Library of Congress .
Reception Margaret Mead
One later view of her early methods relates the intellectual controversies around her to her cultural context. It was heresy for anybody to dare to write her conclusions in a way that non-specialists could understand...
Textual Production Mary Peisley
A second edition followed the same year. A Philadelphia reprint of 1796 does not appear in the English Short Title Catalogue, but the Library of Congress holds a microfilm of it.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Textual Production Hannah Arendt
HA 's papers are mostly held by the Library of Congress , with thought books which gathered material for published works, and some correspondence, at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv at Marburg in Germany.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Second Edition, Yale University Press, 2004.
xlvii, xlviii
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
Several known plays by EI were never published. All on a Summer's Day, 1787 (about a couple ill-matched in age), and The Hue and Cry, 1791, are known only from the copies provided...
Textual Production Maria Barrell
The dedication is signed Maria Barrell, though the title-page renders this in at least some copies as Maria Arrell.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Scholar Janet Todd notes that MB focused on the issue of imprisonment for debtors and...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
The Library of Congress holds a collection of her papers. Eleven letters from her are included among Letters in Winifred Holtby 's Collected In-mail
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Eva Mary Bell
EMB published her final novel, Taking a Liberty (set exclusively in England: London, especially Strand-on-the-Green, with a crucial scene at Chanctonbury Ring in West Sussex, site of an Iron Age hill fort). Her...
Textual Production Charlotte McCarthy
It was printed for the Author. Copies survive at the Library of Congress , Huntington Library , and Boston Public Library . Biographia Dramatica calls it a performance, though the text states that it...
Textual Production Richmal Crompton
RC 's last adult novel, The Inheritor, was published in her sixty-ninth year, and dedicated to her niece Sarah Lamburn .
Dated from the Library of Congress acquisition stamp.
Williams, Kay. Just Richmal. Genesis, 1986.
202
Textual Production Margaret Mead
MMholds the civilian record for the largest collection of papers at the Library of Congress . Her red cape and her walking-stick are preserved and displayed at the Hall of the Pacific Peoples in...

Timeline

: US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt donated her...

Writing climate item

Spring 1938

US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt donated her book collection, as a gift from the National American Woman Suffrage Association , to the Library of Congress .
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
290-1

5 December 1942: The word Holocaust (which originally meant...

Writing climate item

5 December 1942

The word Holocaust (which originally meant an animal sacrifice entirely consumed by fire) was used as a headline in the News Chronicle for a newsitem about the Nazi mass murder of Jews.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.

1968-84: The new Preservation Microfilming Office...

Writing climate item

1968-84

The new Preservation Microfilming Office at the Library of Congress filmed 93 million pages (300,000 volumes of books, besides newspapers); the volumes themselves were destroyed.
Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Random House, 2001.
98

19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...

Building item

19 February 2007

Sarah Thomas , an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University 's Bodleian Library (opened on 8 November 1602).
Garner, Richard. “A double-first at the Bodleian library as US woman takes over”. The Independent, 21 Feb. 2007.
“First woman to become Bodley’s Librarian”. University of Oxford: News, 16 Nov. 2006.

Texts

Catalogue of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. Library of Congress, 1945.