Following the campaign to save the former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital for Women in the Euston Road, London, the public-service-employee union Unison was given the go-ahead to build . . . Read more
In July 2011, Orlando released 10 entries (8 British women writers, 1 male writers, 1 other women writer; 72 new free-standing chronology entries; 358 new bibliographical listings; 30,714 . . . Read more
In January 2011, Orlando released 11 new entries (9 British women writers, 1 male writer, 2 other women writers—listed twice if their nationality shifted); 54 free-standing chronology entries; . . . Read more
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Sybille Bedford
Sybille Bedford was a largely twentieth-century writer who worked on the boundaries between fiction and fact. Her three initial novels (which create fictional characters partly from people in Bedford’s own family or circle, and which evoke with particular historical vividness the political atmosphere of the times, recent but not contemporary, in which they are set) culminate in a ‘memoir-novel’ which is one step closer to autobiography, and a twenty-first century memoir which separates autobiography from fiction. Sybille Bedford has also written biography, accounts of travel, and reports of celebrated trials, as well as reviews and articles on food, wine, and books. Go to Orlando>
Today in Orlando- 9 February 1709The Wesley home at Epworth Rectory was destroyed by fire: all the family got out alive. . . . Read More>
- 9 February 1714Catharine Burton died as Mother Superior of the English Carmelite convent in Hopland, Antwerp; she was said to have made a holy death. . . . Read More>
- 9 February 1724Teresia Constantia Phillips married Henry Muilman, a wealthy young Dutch merchant who had fallen in love with her and lived with her for some time already; he knew of her first marriage, understood it was not valid, and did not mind it. . . . Read More>
- 9 February 1743Leading trade publisher Thomas Cooper died, after which his business was taken over by his widow, Mary Cooper.Mary was already an important mercury (who bought works from trade publishers and sold them to hawkers, often women, who would re-sell in the streets). She now moved into a new shop nearby (still in Paternoster Row, still at the sign of the Globe), a . . . Read More>
- 9 February 1771Ann Masterman Skinn's first husband, William Skinn, petitioned for divorce in the ecclesiastical court, on grounds of her adultery with Matthew Browne. . . . Read More>
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Reviews of Orlando
The experiment is unquestionably a successful one. Orlando‘s most obvious utility, as with the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, involves the ability to turn to its entries on more than . . . Read more
