Cambridge University Press

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Employer Elaine Feinstein
EF worked as an editor for Cambridge University Press , a job which, she said, taught her a great deal.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013.
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Literary responses Anne Finch
The poet Dilys Laing wryly asserted solidarity when in 1949 she addressed Finch in Sonnet to a Sister in Error, noting that women who slight the management of a servile house will themselves be...
Occupation Elaine Feinstein
EF began a three-year lectureship in English at Bishop's Stortford Training College , which she calls a paradise after Cambridge University Press .
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013.
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Publishing Mary Delany
A few of MD 's letters had already reached print: those to Swift in 1766 and those to Frances Hamilton in 1820. Lady Llanover was an extremely meticulous editor,
Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, 1994, pp. 113-40.
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who nevertheless felt it incumbent...
Publishing Jane Marcet
Marcet received advice and encouragement in her project both from her husband and from one of his medical friends, Dr John Yelloy . Yelloy advised her to keep her style serious but accessible, and also...
Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
It was dedicated to the French statesman Talleyrand , a supporter of the Revolution and the reputed lover of Germaine de Staël . She produced a second, revised edition by the end of the year...
Publishing Mary Anne Barker
She was encouraged into book production by two friends in the trade who had also encouraged her journalism, Alexander Macmillan and George Grove . By 1877 this work had reached four editions besides reprints, and...
Publishing Mariana Starke
The full descriptive title runs exactly the same as before, with the changed opening words and the addition: Also a supplement comprising instructions for travelling in France, with descriptions of all the principal roads and...
Publishing Mona Caird
The Morality of Marriage was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Caird, Mona. The Morality of Marriage. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Emily Gerard
Her preface, written at Vienna in February 1888, explains the genesis of the book. Loving the country of Transylvania (its beauty, folklore, and mixture of races), she wrote and published three successive essays on it...
Publishing Emily Eden
Writing mostly to her eldest sister, Eleanor (who was at home in England), and not expecting to be published, EE felt no need for pretence. The book reproduced a drawing of her in old age...
Publishing Jane Marcet
This work reached its third edition in 1819 and its seventh in 1839. It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Political Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Many American editions carry a male authorial name...
Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
Many critics describe this as a travel book: the first one by a Romantic writer to deal with the exotic North. Critic Gary Kelly , however, says that it purports
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992.
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to be a travel...
Publishing Mary Anne Barker
The book was compiled from letters which had previously appeared, vilely printed and not proof-read by the author or apparently by anyone else, in Evening Hours.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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MAB read proof of the book as...
Publishing Felicia Skene
This collection was reprinted in 1984,
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
and was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Skene, Felicia. Scenes from a Silent World; or, Prisons and their Inmates. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.

Timeline

1534: Henry VIII granted a charter to Cambridge...

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1534

Henry VIII granted a charter to Cambridge University giving the right to set up a printing press: Cambridge University Press , the world's earliest surviving publishing house, printed its first book exactly fifty years later.
Bourne, Stephen. “Introduction to Cambridge University Press”. Cambridge University Press: About the Press.

Probably 10 July 1748: Dorothea, Lady Bradshaigh, wrote her first...

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Probably 10 July 1748

Dorothea, Lady Bradshaigh , wrote her first letter to Samuel Richardson , signing herself Belfour.
Fulton, Gordon D., and Janine Barchas, editors. The Annotations in Lady Bradshaigh’s Copy of Clarissa. University of Victoria, 1998.
37n11, 103, 104

By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...

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By 27 September 1905

Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young : The First Book of Geometry.
Young, Grace Chisholm, and William Henry Young. The First Book of Geometry. J. M. Dent, 1905.

1907: Cambridge University Press published the...

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1907

Cambridge University Press published the first of fourteen volumes of the Cambridge History of English Literature by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1911: Cambridge University Press published its...

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1911

Cambridge University Press published its eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
172
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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1923: The first issue of The Fleuron, a magazine...

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1923

The first issue of The Fleuron, a magazine devoted to the history and practice of typography, was published.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
301

1951: Nikolaus Pevsner published the first three...

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1951

Nikolaus Pevsner published the first three titles in his Buildings of England series, an immensely knowledgeable gazetteer, county by county, of historic and other noteworthy structures.
Darley, Gillian. “Down with Cosmopolitanism”. London Review of Books, 18 May 2000, pp. 21-2.
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Hill, Rosemary. “Positively Spaced Out”. London Review of Books, 6 Sept. 2001, pp. 30-1.
30-1

1977: Maggie Ross wrote and Alan Maley edited Death...

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1977

Maggie Ross wrote and Alan Maley edited Death by Drowning, published by Cambridge University Press as a reader for the Cambridge English Language Learning programme.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

4 July 1996: A Defamation Act of this date, repealing...

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4 July 1996

A Defamation Act of this date, repealing and amending earlier British acts, has been later attacked as inviting censorship by private interests: a sedition law for millionaires,
Monbiot, George. “The main threat to free speech is legal”. Guardian Weekly, 25 July 2008, p. 24.
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because of the huge figures exacted in...

Texts

Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
Adamson, John William. Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1905.
Hugo Aurelianensis, and Archipoeta. Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Translator Adcock, Fleur, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Aguilar, Grace. The Women of Israel. Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2 vols., http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Bacon, Anne. “Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon, edited by Gemma Allen, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 1-45.
Armytage, Walter Harry Green. Four Hundred Years of English Education. Second, Cambridge University Press, 1970.
Astell, Mary. Astell, Political Writings. Editor Springborg, Patricia, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 157-73.
Aston, Elaine, and Janelle Reinelt, editors. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Bacon, Anne. The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon. Editor Allen, Gemma, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Bailey, Peter. “’Naughty but nice’: musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892-1914”. The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage, edited by Michael R. Booth and Joel H. Kaplan, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 36-60.
Bales, Richard, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Proust. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Balfour, Clara. Sketches of English Literature, from the Fourteenth to the Present Century. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Banham, Martin, editor. Plays by Tom Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Barchas, Janine. Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Barker, Clive. “Theatre and society: the Edwardian legacy, the First World War and the inter-war years”. British Theatre between the Wars, 1918-1939, edited by Clive Barker and Maggie B. Gale, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 4-37.
Barrington, Emilie. G.F. Watts. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Battersby, Christine. “Her Blood and His Mirror: Mary Coleridge, Luce Irigaray, and the Female Self”. Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination, edited by Richard Eldridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 249-72.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Bennett, Susan. “Genre Trouble: Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Polack—tragic subjects, melodramatic subjects”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 215-32.