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20th century 253
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English literature -- 20th century 131
Humanities 68
19th century 38
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Literature 27
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Poetry 23
Novelists -- 20th century 20
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Novelists -- 19th century 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
18th century 8
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Poetry -- 20th century 4
Sermons 4
Theater -- England 4
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Authors, English - 21st century 3
Children's stories, English 3
Christianity -- 20th century 3
English Fiction -- 20th century 3
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Illustration of books 3
Illustrations 3
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
Journalists -- 20th century 3
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Poets, English 3
Portrait photography 3
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University of Oxford 3
War poetry 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
17th century 2
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Authors, English -- 19th century 2
Authors, English -- Correspondence 2
Biography 2
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Calligraphy 2
Christianity 2
Church Architecture | England 2
Dissertations, Academic 2
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 2
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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
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Philosophy 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
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 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
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 | 1940-2026 | 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

Manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs of Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

 Collection
Manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs of Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer, with research material, c. 1976-1979.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: c. 1976-1979

Manuscript draft by Francis Birrell of chapter 1 of an unpublished novel, Fulvia

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6043, fols. 74-81
Manuscript draft by Francis Birrell of chapter 1 of an unpublished novel, Fulvia.
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Manuscript draft of The Greenstone Griffins by Gladys Mitchell

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21797
Manuscript draft of The Greenstone Griffins by Gladys Mitchell, c.1983.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1983

Manuscript drafts of short stories by A.E. Coppard

 Collection
Annotated manuscripts of the short stories of A.E. [Alfred Edgar] Coppard in notebooks and on lined paper, with presentation box.
Extents: 0.30 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1928-1944

Manuscript notebooks of John Stewart Collis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24448
Manuscript notebooks of John Stewart Collis, 1920 and n.d.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1920 and n.d.

Manuscript of The seven pillars of wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence, the version written in 1920-22

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 112
Manuscript of The seven pillars of wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence, the version written in 1920-22.
Extents: 426 Leaves
Dates: the version written in 1920-22

Manuscript 'school piece' by Thomas Hartley at Mr Earle's Academy, Deptford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22056
Manuscript 'school piece' by Thomas Hartley at Mr Earle's Academy, Deptford, 1754.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 18 Dec 1754

Manuscript volume of poetry "This Happy World of Things" by "Troglodyte"

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23409
Manuscript volume of poetry "The Happy World of Things" by a female poet under the pseudonym "Troglodyte".
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1918

Manuscripts and papers of Charles Williams

 Collection
Manuscript and typescript copies of poetry, plays, and lectures by Charles Williams, author (1886-1945), and reviews of his work.
Extents: 0.9 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates: 1920-1960

Material from the Carrickfergus Louis MacNeice centenary

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7379
Printed ephemera and other material deriving from the Carrickfergus Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) centenary exhibition, conference, and community outreach programme 10 September- 14 December 2007.
Extents: 27 Leaves
Dates: 2007, n.d.

Minute Book of the Oxford University Writers' Club, with a note on the reunion of the club

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 1094
Minute Book of the Oxford University Writers' Club, with a note on the reunion of the club
Extents: 272 Leaves
Dates: 1946-1958, 1988

'The Motor': juvenile miniature motoring magazines

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 19654
'The Motor', a juvenile miniature motoring magazine
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1921-1927

M.T.H. Sadleir Manuscript

 Collection
M.T.H. Sadleir Manuscript, c. 1927
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: c. [1927?]

Natasha Spender papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Natasha Spender, concert pianist, academic, writer, and wife of the British poet Stephen Spender.
Extents: 27.0 Linear metres (180 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c. 1800-2011, n.d.

Nevill Coghill's prose translation of Beowulf

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1076
Nevill Coghill's prose translation of Beowulf
Extents: 110 Leaves
Dates: 18 Nov 1924

Note from Alan Bennett to David Vaisey

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2720, fol. 108
Note from Alan Bennett to David Vaisey, 1991.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1991

Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 198
Notebook of Jane Johnson, containing poems, hymns and (fols. 19-42) 'A very pretty story to tell children when they are about five or six years of age'
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: 1733-52

Notebook of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 257
Notebook of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, containing fair copies of poems by him, 1885-1919, with later amendments, 1940-1948.
Extents: 112 Leaves
Dates: 1885-1919, 1940-1948

O'Donnell lectures in Celtic Studies, University of Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23799
O'Donnell lectures in Celtic Studies, University of Oxford, 1995-2025.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1995-2025

Original pen and ink artwork by Florence Harrison with associated biographical research

 Collection
Original pen and ink artwork by Florence Harrison with associated biographical research, c.1908-2021, [1877-1955].
Extents: 1.10 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates: c.1908-2021, [1877-1955]