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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Alicia D'Anvers
Her father, Samuel Clarke, a former Beadle of Law and first director of printing at Oxford University Press (architypographus), died when his daughter Alice was still a toddler. He was celebrated for his...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Ridler
Humphrey Milford , of Oxford University Press , was AR 's uncle; he and Anne's mother were very close.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
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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 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 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
It was suggested to Vivian Ridler that he was indicating insufficient commitment; personal relations within the Press appear to have had something to do with it. He found another job setting up a private press...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Kamila Shamsie
KS 's maternal grandmother was memoirist Jahanara Habibullah . A relative of great poets and patrons of art and literature, Habibullah was educated in Persian, Arabic, and English in addition to her native Urdu.
Shamsie, Muneeza. “Discovering the Matrix”. Critical Muslim 4, edited by Robin Yassin-Kassab et al., C. Hurst & Co, 2012, pp. 165-76.
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Fictionalization Margaret Catchpole
Richard Cobbold , son of Elizabeth Cobbold , and rector of Wortham, published a fictionalised treatment of MC 's life in 1845 entitled The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. It was...
Literary responses Flora Thompson
Before publication, the US manager of Oxford University Press had written to praise the book's amazing English quality of permanence and repose, and to enquire for information about the author.
qtd. in
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
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After publication FT received...
Literary responses Elizabeth Jenkins
The earliest reviews, said EJ , were not encouraging and some were both tepid and denigratory . . . because [the reviewers] felt it was a dead bore to have to read about Jane Austen...
Literary responses Philip Larkin
Unfavourable reponse began with Dan Davin , Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press , who urged Larkin to reconsider some choices (and did succeed in getting him to admit a few poems by...
Occupation Sylvia Townsend Warner
Until 1929 she was an editor (and the only female editor) of the ten-volume Tudor Church Music, under the general editorship of Dr Percy Buck and published by Oxford University Press from 1922 to 1929.
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Occupation May Cannan
MC took a break from employment at Oxford University Press to work in the cafe at Rouen station, the last stop for British soldiers in France en route for Railhead and the Front.
Critic-biographer Charlotte Fyfe

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Arnold, Denis, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, 1987, p. vii - xviii.
Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press, 1996.
Atwood, Margaret. Interlunar. Oxford University Press, 1984.
Atwood, Margaret. The Animals in That Country. Oxford University Press, 1968.
Atwood, Margaret. The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Oxford University Press, 1970.
Atwood, Margaret, editor. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Atwood, Margaret. Two-Headed Poems. Oxford University Press, 1978.
Austen, Jane. Jane Austen’s Letters. Editor Chapman, Robert William, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1952.
Austen, Jane. Jane Austen’s Letters. Editor Le Faye, Deirdre, Third, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Austen, Jane. Minor Works. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Revised, Oxford University Press, 1965.
Ballaster, Ros, editor. Fables of the East, Selected Tales 1662-1785. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Barker, Jane. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker. Editor Wilson, Carol Shiner, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Editor Humble, Nicola, Abridged, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Beilby, Raymond, and Cecil Hadgraft. Ada Cambridge, Tasma and Rosa Praed. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
Benson, Theodora. “Hot-Water-Bottle Love”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 27-36.
Bernard, Stephen, editor. The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Bernard, Stephen. Whig Literary Culture and the Canon: the Legacy of the Tonsons. Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Blake, Robert, and C. S. Nicholls, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography, 1971-1980. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Blake, William. The Poetical Works of William Blake. Editor Sampson, John, editor, Oxford University Press, 1914.