Oxford University Press

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Claire Keegan
CK has had stories included in collections such as Birthday Stories, edited by Haruki Murakami , 2004; Scéalta: Short Stories by Irish Women, edited by Rebecca O'Connor , 2006; Loved Ones, 2006...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Burnet
EB was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was her...
Dedications Medbh McGuckian
MMG published her second poetry collection, Venus and the Rain, dedicated to her mother and in memory of her mother-in-law, with Oxford 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.
Dedications Medbh McGuckian
MMG published On Ballycastle Beach, her third poetry collection, dedicated to her aunts and uncles, with Oxford University Press in association with Wake Forest University Press in the United States.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
143
McGuckian, Medbh. On Ballycastle Beach. Revised edition, Gallery Press, 1995.
prelims
Employer Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR ) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was...
Employer Jennifer Dawson
JD worked in publishing for the Clarendon Press (an imprint of Oxford University Press ).
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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
She was also a teacher (at a convent at Laval in France before she went into publishing),
Guttridge, Peter. “Obituary: Jennifer Dawson”. The Independent, 27 Oct. 2000.
a social worker...
Employer Joanna Cannan
JC had early envisaged herself having a career as an artist, but her plans were disrupted by the First World War. In 1914 she joined the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) to work as a nurse...
Employer May Cannan
MC went back to work at Oxford University Press , at the invitation of R. W. Chapman , helping on the weekly Oxford Magazine.
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, 2000, p. Various pages.
141-2
Employer May Cannan
Instead, MC and her sisters went to work as volunteers at Oxford University Press , working for their father in the place of men who had enlisted in the army. The production of OUP's general...
Employer Deborah Moggach
DM 's first job after her BA was as a librarian at Oxford University Press , 1970-72. While in Pakistan she worked as a teacher and also did freelance writing during 1972-74.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Family and Intimate relationships Joanna Cannan
Charles Cannan of Oxford University Press , father of the writers May and JC , died.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Charles Cannan
Family and Intimate relationships Joanna Cannan
Her father, Charles Cannan , was an academic whose subject was classics. Having been a Fellow for twelve years before Joanna was born, he also became Dean of Trinity College, Oxford , and in 1898...
Family and Intimate relationships Kamila Shamsie
As a result of her work as a reviewer, Muneeza was approached by Oxford University Press to put together A Dragonfly in the Sun, an anthology of Pakistani literature written in English, commissioned for...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby first met Vivian Ridler on her twenty-fifth birthday. He then had a job with the printing side of Oxford University Press , but was also operating a private press with a friend, David Bland
Family and Intimate relationships Kamila Shamsie
KS has one sister, Saman Shamsie , who is two years her senior.
Shamsie, Kamila. “Writers’ Holiday Photos: Postcards from My Past”. The Guardian, 2 Aug. 2014.
She has named Saman as the person to whom she is closest.
Thorpe, Vanessa. “Kamila Shamsie: ‘Being a UK citizen makes me feel more able to take part in the conversation’”. The Guardian, 27 Aug. 2017.
Saman graduated from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania in 1992, and...

Timeline

1673: Richard Allestree (probably) published with...

Building item

1673

Richard Allestree (probably) published with Oxford University PressThe Ladies Calling, a religious conduct book which became well-known and influential.
This is not among the several works attributed to Allestree which according to Elizabeth Eyre

1710: Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through...

Writing climate item

1710

Oxford scholar Thomas Hearne published through the university press the first of the nine volumes of The Itinerary of John Leland , Antiquary.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1850: John Wycliffe's complete Bible was printed...

Building item

1850

John Wycliffe 's complete Bible was printed for the first time by Oxford University Press .
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
111

1 March 1879: James Murray was appointed editor of the...

Writing climate item

1 March 1879

James Murray was appointed editor of the new Oxford English Dictionary; soon afterwards he sent out 2,000 copies of a four-page invitation to volunteer readers who would collect words.
Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman. HarperCollins, 1998.
112-13

1 February 1884: The first section (A-Ant) of A New English...

Writing climate item

1 February 1884

The first section (A-Ant) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, also known as the Oxford English Dictionary, was published.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
161

1899: Oxford University Press printed the Yattendon...

Writing climate item

1899

Oxford University Press printed the Yattendon Hymnal, edited by Robert Bridges and H. Ellis Wooldridge .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
166
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
134

1900: Notes on a Century of Typography at the University...

Writing climate item

1900

Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford , 1693-1794 was first published.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
167
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.
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
284

1900: Oxford University Press published The Oxford...

Writing climate item

1900

Oxford University Press published The Oxford Book of English Verse, selected and edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1907: Oxford University Press sold its last copy...

Writing climate item

1907

Oxford University Press sold its last copy of Wilkins ' Coptic New Testament, printed in 1716 and believed to have been on sale continuously at its original price.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
128

1939: Peig Sayers published in Ireland her Machtnamh...

Women writers item

1939

Peig Sayers published in Ireland her Machtnamh seana-mhná (whose title is here transliterated from Irish script, as it is in the British Library catalogue).
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.

1939: Oxford University Press published the first...

Writing climate item

1939

Oxford University Press published the first edition of Theodore Besterman 's A World Bibliography of Bibliographies.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
183

1993: Following the Net Book Agreement, Random...

Writing climate item

1993

Following the Net Book Agreement, Random House became the first publisher in Britain to install an automated packing line in warehousing at Tiptree in Essex. Though it was not a success, this did not...

27 October 2005: Margaret Walters published Feminism: A Very...

Women writers item

27 October 2005

Margaret Walters published Feminism: A Very Short Introduction in a popular series from Oxford University Press .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

Texts

Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press.
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 2nd, with revisions, Oxford University Press, 1956.
“The Wrongs of Woman: or Maria. A Fragment”. Mary; and, The Wrongs of Woman, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 69-204.
Adcock, Fleur. High Tide in the Garden. Oxford University Press, 1971.
Adcock, Fleur. Looking Back. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Adcock, Fleur. The Incident Book. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Adcock, Fleur. The Inner Harbour. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Adcock, Fleur. The Scenic Route. Oxford University Press, 1974.
Adcock, Fleur. Tigers. Oxford University Press, 1967.
Adcock, Fleur. Time-Zones. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Adrian, Arthur A. Georgina Hogarth and the Dickens Circle. Oxford University Press, 1957.
Kempe, Margery. “Prefatory Note”. The Book of Margery Kempe, edited by Hope Emily Allen et al., Oxford University Press, 1940, p. liii - lxviii.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Altick, Richard D. The Cowden Clarkes. Oxford University Press, 1948.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
Andrews, William L., and Mary Seacole. “Introduction”. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. xxvii - xxxiv.
Andrews, William L. et al., editors. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Anna Livia,. Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Anna Livia, and Kira Hall, editors. Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford University Press, 1987.