In January 2012, Orlando released 10 entries (9 British women writers, 1 male writer; 39 new free-standing chronology entries; 418 new bibliographical listings; 29,227 new tags; 7,861,990 total . . . Read more
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
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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- 22 May 1455The Wars of the Roses broke out between the houses of York and Lancaster, both claimants to the English throne.The Wars have been counted as running from the Battle of St Albans, fought on this day in 1455, to the Battle of Bosworth Field (near Leicester) on 22 August 1485. . . . Read More>
- 22 May 1644Frances Freke, later Frances, Lady Norton, was born at Oxford, the third of five daughters to survive their infancy out of a family of ten children. . . . Read More>
- 22 May 1661The common hangman at London publicly burned the Covenant with the Scots, as a symbol of stamping out Presbyterianism in England.Political and religious opposition in Scotland began to gather head soon afterwards. . . . Read More>
- 22 May 1685Titus Oates, the informer in the alleged Popish Plot, was whipped through the London streets at a cart's tail from Newgate Prison, where he was incarcerated, to Tyburn.He had been subjected to exceptionally severe whippings of the same kind on a different route two days before, and the day before that had been pilloried and pelted with rubbish. He was l . . . Read More>
- 22 May 1690Joan Vokins died on her way from London to Berkshire, "having finished her course, and kept the faith," as the title-page of her work reminded its readers. . . . Read More>
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[T]he possibilities offered by “interpretive tagging,”… enable the information about an individual writer’s life and work to be searched by time, place, genre and occupation. One can look . . . Read more
