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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Justice
In Russia, EJ heard by mid-May 1736 that her husband, Henry Justice , was in prison, charged with Robbery of the Library at Cambridge .
Justice, Elizabeth. A Voyage to Russia. 2nd ed., G. Smith, 1746.
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He was tried for the theft of sixty books...
names Charlotte Grace O'Brien
  • BirthName: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
    Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications, 1983.
    Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

  • Indexed: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
    The British Library , Bodleian Library , and Cambridge University Library all list her as Charlotte Grace O'Brien; all except the Bodleian ascribe earlier work by Charlotte...
Author summary Mary Martha Sherwood
MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
Publishing Flora Annie Steel
FAS is said to have issued her short-story volume entitled In the Permanent Way, and Other Stories, though the only English edition to survive in any numbers appeared in 1898.
As with On the...
Publishing Delarivier Manley
In 2007 a copy of volumes one and two of the first edition (bearing a contemporary manuscript key in each volume, which is found in the Cambridge University Library copy too) were offered for sale...
Publishing Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Circe (of whose original London edition Cambridge University Library holds the only copy known to be extant) was re-issued at Hastings in 2001 by the Sensation Press with an introduction by Gabrielle Malcolm .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Publishing Dora Greenwell
This original, Edinburgh edition is now extremely rare: OCLC WorldCat lists a unique copy in Cambridge University Library . The original edition, as well as later ones, features what became a trademark for DG 's...
Publishing Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
This work, published at Cambridge, is held by Cambridge University Library
“Newton Library Catalogue”. University of Cambridge: Cambridge University Library and Dependent Libraries.
though not by either the British Library or the Bodleian .
Publishing Margery Kempe
He avoided anything too controversial, and chose description of interior contemplation rather than external action. Only one copy of his work survives, in Cambridge University Library .
Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, translated by. Barry A. Windeatt, Penguin, 1994, pp. 9-30.
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Henry Pepwell reprinted the same passage in...
Reception May Laffan
Helena Kelleher Kahn claimed this work was that of a woman depressed enough to consider taking her own life.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.
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The unpublished manuscript (which is held at the Cambridge University Library ) marks a subdued...
Textual Features Carola Oman
Her full title is Robin Hood, The Prince of Outlaws, A Tale of the Fourteenth Century from the "Lytell Geste". Her preface, in explaining how she came to write this book, does a nice...
Textual Production Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
Wycliffe had made his translation in the fourteenth century. This transcription of it, handwritten on vellum, has had Tyrwhit's note carefully stitched onto one of its blank preliminary pages. The unknown contemporary or near-contemporary who...
Textual Production Anne Bacon
In 1571 AB contributed a poem in Latin to a presentation manuscript (now in Cambridge University Library ) of Giardino cosmografico coltivato by the Italian protestant Giordano Sylva, alongside contributions from her sister Katherine...
Textual Production Margaret Legge
Margaret Legge published her first novel, A Semi-Detached Marriage, which criticises the inequality embedded in marriage law and customs.
Dated from the Cambridge University Library acquisition stamp.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Mary Basset
William Rastell included in his edition of The Workes of Sir Thomas More, Knyght . . . wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge the translation by MB of the Latin section of More's Treatise...

Timeline

From 1662: The King's Library (now part of the British...

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From 1662

The King's Library (now part of the British Library ) and Cambridge University Library enjoyed the legal right to a copy of every book published in Britain (a right granted to the Bodleian on 11...

31 October 1910: Frances Olive Underhill, a graduate of Royal...

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31 October 1910

Frances Olive Underhill , a graduate of Royal Holloway College , was appointed by E. W. B. Nicholson Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian : the first woman so appointed in England, after considerable infighting and...

1934: Architect Giles Gilbert Scott designed Cambridge...

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1934

Architect Giles Gilbert Scott designed Cambridge University Library, which was completed this year.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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22 October 1934: King George V opened the new Cambridge University...

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22 October 1934

King George V opened the new Cambridge University Library designed by Sir Giles Scott .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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26 January 2009: Cambridge University announced that Anne...

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26 January 2009

Cambridge University announced that Anne Jarvis , former Sub-Librarian, had been appointed its first woman University Librarian .
“Cambridge appoints first female University Librarian”. Cambridge University. News and Events, 26 Jan. 2009.

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