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20th century 572
Literature 278
English literature 154
English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 95
19th century 80
Letters 61
Poetry 61
21st century 50
English poetry -- 20th century 37
Poets 37
Children's literature -- 20th century 33
Literature -- 20th century 31
Authors -- 20th century 28
Authors 22
English poetry 20
Novelists -- 20th century 19
Correspondence 17
Poems 17
Letters -- 20th century 16
18th century 15
Playwriting -- Drama 15
Authors, English -- 20th century 14
English literature -- 19th century 14
Novelists -- 19th century 13
Manuscripts 12
Religion 12
Authors, English 11
Art 9
Classical literature 9
Lectures and lecturing 9
Literature -- Translations 9
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
17th century 8
Essays 8
History 8
Literary criticism 8
Poetry -- 20th century 8
Biography 7
English language 7
English poetry -- Women authors 7
German literature 7
Music 7
Photographs 7
Poets -- 20th century 7
University of Oxford 7
War poetry 7
16th century 6
Authors -- 19th century 6
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 6
English literature -- 18th century 6
Journalism 6
Oxford (England) 6
Poets, English -- Correspondence 6
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 6
World War, 1914-1918 6
Diaries 5
Diaries -- 20th century 5
English poetry -- 21st century 5
Fantasy fiction 5
Publishers and publishing 5
Academic writing 4
Art, British -- 20th century 4
Artists 4
French literature 4
Germany 4
Greek literature 4
Illustration of books 4
Photography 4
Publishing 4
Radio broadcasting -- Great Britain 4
Science fiction 4
Sermons 4
Spanish literature 4
Theater -- England 4
Africa 3
Africa -- Description and travel 3
Africa -- History -- 20th century 3
Agriculture -- Kenya 3
Anthropology 3
Authors, English - 21st century 3
Autobiography 3
Basque literature 3
Bodleian Library 3
Calligraphy 3
Children's stories, English 3
Christianity -- 20th century 3
Cricket 3
Dissertations, Academic 3
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 3
English Fiction -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 21st century 3
Folklore and children 3
Illustrations 3
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
Ireland 3
Journalists -- 20th century 3
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Exhibitions 3
Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 3
Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 57
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 14
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
University of Oxford 7
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 5
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 5
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 5
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 5
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 4
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 3
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 3
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 3
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 3
Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3
Lambert | Catherine | nee Read | b. 1918 | vocal coach 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Poynton | Arthur Blackburne | 1867-1944 | Greek scholar 3
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 3
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 2
Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 2
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 2
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 2
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2
Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author 2
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2
Dodds | Annie Edwards | 1886/7–1973 | née Powell | lecturer in English at Reading University 2
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 2
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 2
Fraenkel | Eduard David Mortier | 1888-1970 | classical scholar 2
Gibson | Wilfrid Wilson | 1878-1962 | Georgian poet 2
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 2
Grahame | Elspeth | 1862-1946 | née Thomson | wife of Kenneth Grahame 2
Grahame | Elspeth S | 1862-1946 2
Greene | Vivien | 1904-2003 | collector 2
Hardie | Frank Martin | fl. 1926-1977 | author 2
Heaney | Seamus | 1939-2013 | Poet and Lecturer 2
Henrey | Madeleine (Mrs Robert Henrey) | 13 Aug. 1906–25 April 2004 | authoress 2
Hermogenes | 161-180 | of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician 2
Hewitt | William Graily | 1864-1952 | Novelist and calligrapher 2
Hughes | Shirley | 1927-2022 | freelance author and illustrator 2
Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 2
Kennedy | Ludovic Henry Coverley | b 1919 | Writer and Broadcaster 2
Montgomery | Robert Bruce | 1921-1978 | Composer and writer as Edmund Crispin 2
Moore | Edward | 1835-1916 | Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 2
Mynors | Sir | Roger Aubrey Baskerville | 1903-1989 | Knight | classical scholar 2
Needham | Rodney | 1923-2006 | Anthropologist 2
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 2
Oxford University Writers' Club. 2
Pullman | Philip | b 1946 | writer 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Sassoon | Siegfried | 1886-1967 | poet 2
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 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
Stallworthy | Jon (Howie) | 1935-2014 | poet and literary critic 2
Streatfeild | Mary Noel | 1895-1986 | author 2
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 2
Thwaite | Ann Barbara | 1932 | née Harrop | biographer 2
Thwaite | Anthony | b. 1930 | poet and writer 2
Treby | Ivor | 1933-2012 | poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher 2
Trollope | Anthony | 1815-1882 | novelist 2
University of Oxford | Students 2
Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 2
Wordsworth | Christopher | fl. 1910 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

Record of books read and bought by Brian Butler

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24282
Record of books read and bought by Brian Butler, 1948-1957.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1948-1957

Record of meetings of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Dep. e. 309
Record of meetings of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1969-1979

Records of the proceedings of two University college literary societies

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon d. 95/1
Records of the proceedings of two University college literary societies
Extents: 137 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1892-1903

Rejected draft for Chapter Nine of Full Term by J.I.M. Stewart

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fols. 81-84
Rejected draft for Chapter Nine of Full Term by J.I.M. Stewart.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: Sep 1989

Reminiscences of Professor Harold F. Brooks concerning Sir Charles Firth, historian

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 882, fols. 42-44
Reminiscences of Professor Harold Brooks concerning Sir Charles Firth
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 1983

Revised proof of D. L. Johnston, The Trianon case (Ilfracombe, 1945)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 307
Revised proof of D. L. Johnston, The Trianon case (Ilfracombe, 1945)
Extents: 176 pages
Dates: 1945-1948

A rhyme about Prof. C.H. Dodd ?by Sir Farquhar Buzzard

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don d. 163, fol. 2
A rhyme about Prof. C.H. Dodd by Sir Farquhar Buzzard
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1930

Richard Adams's annotated copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and his copy of the first British edition (1975)

 Collection
Richard Adams's annotated copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and his copy of the first British edition (1975).
Extents: 0.30 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1974-1975

Robert Barry Donovan, 'The MS. Digby 133 Mary Magdalene: a critical edition'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1151
Robert Barry Donovan, 'The MS. Digby 133 Mary Magdalene: a critical edition'
Extents: 221 Leaves
Dates: July 1977

Robin Joyce, 'The Troublesome Woman: A Study of Barbara Pym’s novels and short stories'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8246
Robin Joyce, 'The Troublesome Woman: A Study of Barbara Pym’s novels and short stories'
Extents: 314 Leaves
Dates: Mar 2012

Rose E. Hubbard, Ornamental waterfowl (Walsall, 1907)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 653
Rose E. Hubbard, Ornamental waterfowl (Walsall, 1907)
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c. 1907-1917

'Scraps, etc.'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Span. c. 11
'Scraps, etc.'
Extents: 22 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1901-1902

Script for a musical play on the life of St Frideswide

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24246
Script for a musical play on the life of St Frideswide, c.1994.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: c.1994

Scroll containing translations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in various languages

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21647
Scroll containing translations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in various languages, [2010s].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [2010s]

Selective concordance by A. B. Poynton to the 'opuscula' of Dionysius Halicarnassensis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Gr. class. d. 139
Selective concordance by A. B. Poynton to the 'opuscula' (excluding the 'ars rhetorica') of Dionysius Halicarnassensis.
Extents: 177 Leaves
Dates: 1920s

Seven poems written for John Wain on the occasion of his marriage

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fols. 51-57
Seven poems written for John Wain on the occasion of his marriage
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1947

Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions)

 Collection
Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
Extents: 82 shelfmarks and 37 objects
Dates: 1577-1992 (predominantly 18th-20th cent.)

Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 26
Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne.
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates: c. 1837-1909

Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 16
Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates: May 1881, 1916

Six letters from John le Carré to Mrs Chris Boot

 Single Item
Six letters from John le Carré to Mrs Chris Boot, 1992-2019.
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates: 1992-2019