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20th century 252
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English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 65
19th century 38
21st century 31
Literature 27
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Authors, English -- 20th century 11
Art 9
Authors, English 9
Novelists -- 19th century 9
18th century 8
Women authors, English -- 20th 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
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
Illustrations 2
Ireland 2
Journalists -- Great Britain -- 20th century 2
Philosophy 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

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

Papers of Alfred Edgar Coppard

 Collection
Papers of Alfred Edgar Coppard, 1900-1957, n.d.
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1900-1957, n.d.

Papers of Ernest Walker

 Collection
Papers related to Ernest Walker in the archive of Albi and Maud Rosenthal, 1889-1963, n.d.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1889-1963, n.d.

Papers of Hilary Walton relating to Barbara Pym

 Collection
Papers of Hilary Crampton Walton née Pym (1916-2004) relating to her sister, the novelist Barbara Pym (1913-1980), c.1920-2008.
Extents: 3.45 Linear metres (23 boxes)
Dates: 1920-2008