Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Library of Congress
Connections
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Travel | Angela Thirkell | She hated New York (a nasty, paltry . . . negligeable place) but loved Boston (where her old-fashioned hostess, Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton
, seemed to her a wonderful remnant of the Flowering... |
Textual Production | Ethel Lilian Voynich | In New York City, ELV
focused her musical energies on composition, orchestration, and smaller works like cantatas and oratorios although she left most of these works unpublished, keeping them to herself. Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, pp. 876-7. 877 Ethel L. Voynich papers, 1928-1948. http://www.findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.music.eadmus.mu010020&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=bioghist. |
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. 202 |
Textual Production | Nancy Cunard | NC
's papers are held at the Universities of Texas
and Southern Illinois
, and the Library of Congress
. Scholar Jane Marcus
notes in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography that her unpublished papers... |
Textual Production | Anita Desai | AD
published Journey to Ithaca, a novel classified by the American Library of Congress
as religious fiction: its title alludes to the hero's homeward journey in Homer
's Odyssey. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4809 (2 June 1995): 20 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Forman | They were carried in the Morning Chronicle, the St. James Chronicle, the Public Advertiser, and the General Evening Post. Scholar Joel J. Gold
considers their attribution to CF
as likely, but... |
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 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. 513 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
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. xlvii, xlviii |
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 | 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/. |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | The book was not at the time published in the US or registered with the Library of Congress
. The result was a pirated edition, and largely for this reason MS
set about revising it... |
Timeline
: US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt donated her...
Writing climate item
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...
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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...
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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...
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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).
Texts
Catalogue of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. Library of Congress, 1945.