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.
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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.
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Publishing Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Social Studies. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Mary Kingsley
Its full title is Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons; it is based on journeys undertaken in 1893 and 1895. The work is available in the University of Adelaide 's Electronic...
Publishing Margaret Bryan
The full title runs A Compendious System of Astronomy, in a course of familiar lectures; in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not...
Publishing Frances Power Cobbe
Based on a series of talks, followed by discussion, given to a female audience at the Westminster Palace Hotel in London in November and December 1879, this book appeared the same year in Boston as...
Publishing Emma Roberts
These pieces had appeared originally in the Asiatic Journal. The volumes were reprinted at Philadelphia the following year. They were reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Unsigned, and Emma Roberts. “Memoir”. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay, W. H. Allen, p. xi - xxviii.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Roberts, Emma. Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
This...
Publishing Eliza Fletcher
It was reprinted the next year in Edinburgh. This work was also reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Mary Kingsley
Kinglsey received editorial help from her friends Alice Stopford Green , Lucy Toulmin Smith , and John Holt .
Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin.
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West African Studies was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Kingsley, Mary. West African Studies. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Margaret Bryan
The work was based on a series of thirteen lectures given at her school. It was dedicated to Princess Charlotte and to Charles Hutton , scientist and writer, and published by subscription. Subscribers included 157...
Publishing Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The first printing, on expensive paper, was quickly followed by a cheaper reprint which corrected some of the more glaring errors. A family-edited Letters and Works followed in December 1836, dated on its title-page 1837...
Publishing Frances Cornford
Frances Cornford 's Mountains and Molehills, illustrated with woodcuts by Gwen Raverat , was published by Cambridge University Press .
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.
Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Mountains and Molehills. Cambridge University Press.
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Publishing Flora Shaw
This is a substantial book of over 500 pages, equipped with maps. A new edition appeared in 1997 from Black Classic Press with an introduction by John Henrik Clarke .
Black Classic Press. http://www.blackclassic.com/.
under Catalogue: Non-Fiction
The work...
Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
The longer title was A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, occasioned by his "Reflections on the French Revolution". The second edition appeared next month...

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.

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.

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.

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 .

1911: Cambridge University Press published its...

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1911

Cambridge University Press published its eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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, 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. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Through Spain to the Sahara. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.