Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Osborne Collection of Children's Books
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Florence Nightingale | Florence received a liberal education from her father. |
Literary responses | Sarah Trimmer | ST
's work made a great impact. She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011–2013, 3 vols. |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | The work was dedicated to Caroline Bowles
, with whom MH
's sometimes shaky friendship was currently flourishing. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 77 |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | The museum at Odense in Denmark, birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen
, holds some MH
material. A copy of R. H. Horne
's A New Spirit of the Age in Harvard University Library
has... |
Textual Production | Anna Brownell Jameson | Anna Brownwell Murphy (later ABJ
) published A First or Mother's Dictionary for Children. If this date is correct, her first job as a governess had just ended. It is the Osborne Collection
and... |
Textual Production | Anna Brownell Jameson | The book's full title was A First or Mother's Dictionary for Children:containing upwards of three thousand eight hundred words which occur most frequently in books and conversation: simply and familiarly explained, and interspersed throughout with... |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | At some unknown date before 1895 (one of its readers guessed 1893) EN
had Designed in England. Printed in Germany, qtd. in Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Catalogue of Books By, For, and About Women of the British Isles, 1696-1892. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts, Feb. 2007. |
Timeline
4 March 1793: Edwin Griffith wrote in a copy of Tommy Trip's...
Building item
4 March 1793
Edwin Griffith wrote in a copy of Tommy Trip's Valentine Gift, 1785: Edwin Griffith the gift of his wife . . . . I shall keep this book as Long as it is in being.
Jackson, Heather. Marginalia: Readers’ Notes in Books, 1700-2000. Yale University Press, 2001.
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