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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 | 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 | 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 |
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 | 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... |
Textual Production | Edna St Vincent Millay | The Library of Congress
now holds Millay's major archive of letters, notebooks, manuscripts, and photographs. Other papers are held by Yale University
and the New York Public Library
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001. 513 American National Biography. |
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. Yale University Press, 2004. xlvii, xlviii |
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. |
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. |
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... |
Timeline
Spring1938
US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt
donated her book collection, as a gift from the National American Woman Suffrage Association
, to the Library of Congress
.
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.
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.
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).