Cambridge University Press

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Camilla Crosland
It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Crosland, Camilla. Landmarks of a Literary Life. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
This work is dedicated To the English girls to whom fate may assign the task of being house-mothers in Our Eastern Empire.
Hickman, Katie. Daughters of Britannia: The Life and Times of Diplomatic Wives. Flamingo.
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Steel and Gardiner called themselves on the title-page two twenty year's [sic]...
Publishing Margaret Gatty
The Book of Sun-Dials reflects her early interest in the emblems of Francis Quarles . On its title-page she describes herself as collecting rather than writing it—from the sundial collection she had been amassing all...
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.
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to be a travel...
Publishing Clara Balfour
The text was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Balfour, Clara. Sketches of English Literature, from the Fourteenth to the Present Century. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Constance Lytton
It is dedicated to prisoners, and not to suffrage or political prisoners only, but to those brought to jail by distress of circumstance, drunkenness, selfish action, cruelty, or madness.CL urges them to remember...
Publishing Josephine Butler
It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Butler, Josephine. The Constitution Violated. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Florence Nightingale
The earliest surviving copies are without the title-page statement about translation rights, and the endpaper advertisements, which were added in succeeding issues.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books.
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The book was extremely popular with readers and, at the cost of...
Publishing Emily Davies
The book was released as the Schools Inquiry Commission was deliberating on its findings.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
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It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Davies, Emily. The Higher Education of Women. Editor Howarth, Janet, Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Charlotte Stopes
The second, corrected, re-named edition was published in 1889, and reprinted in 1973.
Stopes, Charlotte. The Bacon-Shakspere Question. T. G. Johnson.
prelims
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
This second edition was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Stopes, Charlotte. The Bacon-Shakspere Question. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Publishing Dorothea Gerard
She dedicated this work To the Austrian Army as the wife of one of its members.
Gerard, Dorothea. The Austrian Officer at Work and at Play. Smith, Elder.
prelims
It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.
Gerard, Dorothea. The Austrian Officer at Work and at Play. Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
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, 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.

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.