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20th century 253
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English literature -- 20th century 131
Humanities 67
19th century 38
21st century 31
Literature 27
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Letters 23
Poetry 23
Authors -- 20th century 19
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Authors, English -- 20th century 11
Art 9
Authors, English 9
Novelists -- 19th century 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
18th century 8
English language 7
Lectures and lecturing 7
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Letters -- 20th century 6
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Playwriting -- Drama 4
Poetry -- 20th century 4
Sermons 4
Theater -- England 4
Art, British -- 20th century 3
Artists 3
Authors, English - 21st century 3
Children's stories, English 3
Christianity -- 20th century 3
English Fiction -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 21st century 3
Fantasy fiction 3
Illustration of books 3
Illustrations 3
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
Journalists -- 20th century 3
Music 3
Poets, English 3
Portrait photography 3
Science fiction 3
University of Oxford 3
War poetry 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
17th century 2
Academics 2
Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 2
Authors, English -- 19th century 2
Authors, English -- Correspondence 2
Biography 2
Books and reading 2
Calligraphy 2
Christianity 2
Church Architecture | England 2
Dissertations, Academic 2
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 2
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 2
English literature -- Old English, c.450-1100 2
English literature--20th century 2
English poetry -- 21st century 2
Feminism 2
Folklore and children 2
Germany 2
Historians 2
Ireland 2
Journalists -- Great Britain -- 20th century 2
Philosophy 2
Poets laureate 2
Politics and Government 2
Publishers and publishing 2
Radio broadcasting -- Great Britain 2
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Theater 2
United States of America -- Description and travel 2
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 45
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 7
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 7
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 7
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 5
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 4
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 4
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 3
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 3
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 3
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 2
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 2
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 2
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 2
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 2
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 2
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 2
Greene | Vivien | 1904-2003 | collector 2
Hewitt | William Graily | 1864-1952 | Novelist and calligrapher 2
Hughes | Shirley | 1927-2022 | freelance author and illustrator 2
Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 2
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Spender | Natasha | 1919-2010 | née Litvin | concert pianist 2
University of Oxford 2
University of Oxford | Students 2
"Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
Abbott | Claude Colleer |17 April 1889–17 Sept. 1971 | Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Durham, 1932–54, Emeritus Professor, 1954 1
Adcock | Arthur St John | 1864-1930 | Novelist 1
Adcock | Marion L | fl 1879-1890 1
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 1
Amis | Martin Louis | b 1949 | author 1
Archer | Jeffrey Howard | b. 1940 | Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare | writer and politician 1
Arlott | (Leslie Thomas) John | 1914-1991 | writer and broadcaster 1
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 1
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Bayley | John Oliver | 1925-2015 | literary critic and novelist 1
Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 1
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Beeching | Henry Charles |1859–1919 | dean of Norwich and author 1
Beerbohm | Sir | Henry Maximilian | 1872-1956 | Knight | author and cartoonist 1
Bennett | Alan | b 1934 | author and playwright 1
Benson Arthur Christopher | 1862-1925 | Writer 1
Benson family 1
Benson | Edward White | 1829-1896 | Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Benson | Margaret | 1865-1916 | Egyptologist and religious philosopher 1
Benson | Robert Hugh | 1871-1914 | Roman Catholic writer and apologist 1
Bentley | Edmund Clerihew | 1875-1956 | Writer 1
Berlin | Sir | Isaiah | 1909-1997 | Knight | historian and philosopher 1
Bernières | Louis de | b.1954 | novelist 1
Betjeman | Penelope | 1910-1986 | writer 1
Bide | Peter | Reverend | 1912-2003 | priest 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Birrell | Francis | 1889-1935 | writer 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blaker | Richard Sidney | 1893-1940 | Author 1
Bles | (David) Geoffrey | 1886-1957 | publisher 1
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 1
Bond | (Thomas) Michael | 1926-2017 | author 1
Bone | Lady | Gertrude Helena | 1876-1962 | née Dodd | writer 1
Bone | Sir | Muirhead | 1876-1953 | printmaker and draughtsman 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bretherton | John Christopher | 1925-2015 1
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 1
Brooke | Stopford Augustus | 1832-1916 | preacher and writer 1
Brooke-Rose | Christine Frances Evelyn | 1923-2012 | writer and literary critic 1
Butler | Arthur Gray | 1831-1909 | headmaster of Haileybury and clergyman 1
Butler | Brian Harding | 1931-2023 | academic and minister 1
Butler | Harold Edgeworth | 1878-1951 | classical scholar and antiquary 1
Butler | Harriet (Edgeworth) | 1801-1889 | sister of Maria Edgeworth 1
Butler | Harriet Jessie (Edgeworth) | 1851-1946 | wife of Arthur Gray Butler 1
Butler | Henry Montagu | 1833-1918 | headmaster of Harrow and master of Trinity Cambridge 1
Butler | Lady | Marilyn Speers | 1937-2014 | literary scholar and college head 1
Butler | Sir | David Edgeworth | 1924-2022 | Knight | political scientist and psephologist 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Cameron | Julia Margaret | 1815-1879 | photographer 1
Cape | Herbert Jonathan | 1879-1960 | Publisher 1

Three letters from Penelope Betjeman to Margaret Irving

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8256
Three letters from Penelope Betjeman to Margaret Irving
Extents: 26 Leaves
Dates: 1964-2007

Three letters from Stephen Spender to Martin Filler regarding his contributions to Design Quarterly

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 92-95
Three letters from Stephen Spender to Martin Filler regarding his contributions to Design Quarterly, 1992.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: 1992

Three letters to C.S. Lewis from children at Far Hills Country Day School, New Jersey

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fols. 76-79
Three letters to C.S. Lewis from children at Far Hills Country Day School, New Jersey.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: 1988

Time and Place, an anthology of short poems, chosen for their ‘geographically sentimental’ character and formally written out on parchment by the calligrapher William Graily Hewitt

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 191
Time and Place, an anthology of short poems, chosen for their ‘geographically sentimental’ character and formally written out on parchment by the calligrapher William Graily Hewitt.
Extents: 21 Leaves
Dates: 1938

Transcripts by Neil R. Ker of the seven Poema Morale manuscripts

 Collection
Transcripts by Neil R. Ker of the seven Poema Morale manuscripts, created before 1932, with letters and notes, c.1947-1949.
Extents: 0.1 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c.1930-1949 and n.d.

Two letters from Joyce Cary to unidentified recipients

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fols. 50-51
Two letters from Joyce Cary to unidentified recipients.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: Dec 1941 and n.d.

Two letters to Andrew Robinson from Isaiah Berlin

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 107-108
Two letters to Andrew Robinson from Isaiah Berlin.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 27 Jul 1994, 16 Jan 1995

Two letters to Cyril Lakin from Jack Walter Lambert

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8410, fols. 71-72
Two letters to Cyril Lakin from Jack Walter Lambert, May 1946.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: May 1946

Two photographic portraits of Alice Liddell by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

 Collection
Photographic portraits of Alice Liddell by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [Lewis Carroll], 1858-1860.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1858-1860

Two sonnets written out in calligraphy by Alfred Fairbank

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24414
Two sonnets written out in calligraphy by Alfred Fairbank, c.1975.
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1975

Typescript copy of an article on John Masefield from the San Francisco Call

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 104-105
Typescript copy of an article on John Masefield from the San Francisco Call
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1913

Typescript draft of Lace by Shirley Conran

 Collection
Typescript draft of Lace by Shirley Conran with research notebook
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1979-1991

Typescript drama in verse, 'Love’s Eve', by Walter de la Mare

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 220
Typescript drama in verse, ‘Love’s Eve’, by Walter de la Mare.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: 1903

Typescript of an unpublished novel by Alice Lee, 'A Master of Silence'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1452
Typescript of an unpublished novel by Alice Lee, 'A Master of Silence'
Extents: 315 Leaves
Dates: early 20th century

Typescript of 'Bertie's Escapade' by Kenneth Grahame

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 15600
Typescript of 'Bertie's Escapade' by Kenneth Grahame.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1907-2008

Typescript of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 133
Typescript of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates: c. 1967

Typescript poem ('the pubic hair collection') by Ivor Treby with related material including Dorian Opera programmes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 79-87
Catalogue of typescript poem ('the pubic hair collection') by Ivor Treby with related material including Dorian Opera programmes, 1982-1983.
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates: 1982-1983

Typescript radio transcript of 'What Christians Believe', a series of programmes by C.S. Lewis about Christianity broadcast on the BBC Home Service

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22800
Typescript radio transcript of 'What Christians Believe', a series of programmes by C.S. Lewis about Christianity broadcast on the BBC Home Service, [1942].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1942]

Typescript, with holograph amendments, of a lecture by Seamus Heaney, 'Fretwork: On Translating Beowulf'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6043, fols. 49-65
Typescript, with holograph amendments, of a lecture by Seamus Heaney, ‘Fretwork: On Translating Beowulf’.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: 23 Jan 1998

Unpublished child's historical novel, The Lost Kingdom, by C.M. Carter

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17192
Unpublished child's historical novel entitled The Lost Kingdom by C.M. Carter, c.1922.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: c.1922