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20th century 251
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Playwriting -- Drama 4
Poetry -- 20th century 4
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Theater -- England 4
Art, British -- 20th century 3
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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
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
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Science fiction 3
University of Oxford 3
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Authors, English -- 19th century 2
Authors, English -- Correspondence 2
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Christianity 2
Church Architecture | England 2
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English literature--20th century 2
English poetry -- 21st century 2
Feminism 2
Folklore and children 2
Germany 2
Historians 2
Illustrations 2
Ireland 2
Journalists -- 20th century 2
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Politics and Government 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
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
Cawkwell | Sarah | 1950- | artist 1

41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 153
41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother, probably about 1925, in a notebook.
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates: c. 1925

The Abinger Papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937

Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 106-116
Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 1963

Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.

Additional papers of Adam Fox

 Collection
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1912-1976

Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22073
Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond, c.1968.
Extents: 1 box (2 folders)
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1968-1997; c.1968

Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the poet and writer Anne Ridler (1912-2001) and her husband Vivian Ridler (1913-2009), printer to the Oxford University Press and founder of Perpetua Press.
Extents: 5.596 Linear metres (81 boxes)
Dates: 1836-2011, n.d.; Majority of material found within 1927 - 2011

Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock

 Collection
Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock
Extents: 4.03 Linear metres (71 boxes)
Dates: 19th-20th century

Archive of Audrey Beecham

 Collection
Papers of Audrey Beecham (1915-1989), poet and academic, with a small number of boxes concerning the wider Beecham family.
Extents: 6.70 Linear metres (100 boxes)
Dates: 1845-1988, n.d.

Archive of Brian Aldiss

 Collection
The archive of the author Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925-2017).
Extents: 12.61 Linear metres (190 boxes)
Dates: 1942-2017

Archive of Bruce Montgomery 'Edmund Crispin'

 Collection
Archive of Bruce Montgomery, (1921-1978), detective novelist writing under the pseudonym of Edmund Crispin, and composer in his own name.
Extents: 28.5 Linear metres (187 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1921-78

Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon

 Collection
The archive of the poet and novelist C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] (1904-1972) and his wife, the actress Jill Balcon (1925-2009).
Extents: 9.3 Linear metres (66 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1928-2009; 1778-2009

Archive of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin

 Collection
Papers of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989), writer.
Extents: 18.92 Linear metres (175 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1963-1989

Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke

 Collection
Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke
Extents: 1.70 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates: 1882-1969

Archive of Edith Teresa Noel-Hill (née Hulton), Lady Berwick

 Collection
The Archive of Edith Teresa Noel-Hill (née Hulton), Lady Berwick.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: c.1937

Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley

 Collection
Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Extents: 2.11 Linear metres (29 boxes)
Dates: 1890-1955

Archive of E.K. Chambers

 Collection
Archive of E.K. Chambers, 1930
Extents: 0.33 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1930

Archive of E.R. Eddison

 Collection
Archive of E.R. Eddison
Extents: 1.13 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 1892-1958

Archive of Ethel Sidgwick

 Collection
Archive of Ethel Sidgwick
Extents: 1.28 Linear metres (16 boxes)
Dates: 1876-1960

Archive of Evelyn Sharp

 Collection
Archive of Evelyn Sharp
Extents: 2.31 Linear metres (39 Boxes)
Dates: 1845-1955