Showing Collections: 1 - 20 of 102
Collection
The Abinger Papers
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
Single Item
Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates:
1838-1861, n.d.
Single Item
Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond
Amended typescript of Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond, c.1968.
Shelfmark: MS. 22073
Extents: 1 box (2 folders)
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1968-1997; c.1968
Collection
Archive of A. Maud Bodkin
Archive of A. Maud Bodkin
Extents: 0.21 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates:
1928-1967
Collection
Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler
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
Collection
Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock
Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock
Extents: 4.03 Linear metres (71 boxes)
Dates:
19th-20th century
Collection
Archive of Audrey Beecham
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.
Collection
Archive of Barbara Mary Crampton Pym
Papers of Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (1913-80), novelist.
Extents: 11 Linear metres (178 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1913-1980
Collection
Archive of Brian Aldiss
The archive of the author Brian Wilson Aldiss (1925-2017).
Extents: 12.61 Linear metres (190 boxes)
Dates:
1942-2017
Collection
Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke
Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke
Extents: 1.70 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates:
1882-1969
Collection
Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Extents: 2.11 Linear metres (29 boxes)
Dates:
1890-1955
Collection
Archive of Enid Starkie
Archive of Enid Starkie, literary critic, author and fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
Extents: 6.55 Linear metres (95 boxes)
Dates:
1879-1985, n.d.
Collection
Archive of E.R. Eddison
Archive of E.R. Eddison
Extents: 1.13 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates:
1892-1958
Collection
Archive of Ethel Sidgwick
Archive of Ethel Sidgwick
Extents: 1.28 Linear metres (16 boxes)
Dates:
1876-1960
Collection
Archive of Falconer Madan relating to Manuscripts of Vergil
Archive of Falconer Madan relating to Manuscripts of Vergil.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates:
1876-80
Collection
Archive of Franz Kafka
Papers of Franz Kafka (1883-1924) comprising diaries and literary notebooks, with some loose fragments, correspondence and photographs, 1882-1924, and some family papers to 1940. Predominantly in German, some correspondence in Czech and vocabularies in Hebrew. Drawings by Kafka are also present.
Extents: 6.05 Linear metres (55 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
[1882]-1940, n.d.
Collection
Archive of Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer
Correspondence and papers of Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer
Extents: 8.22 Linear meters (117 containers)
Dates:
1799-2021
Collection
Archive of Joanna Trollope
Archive of Joanna Trollope (1943-2025), writer, including literary and personal papers, [1908]-2019.
Extents: 5.26 Linear metres (109 boxes)
Dates:
[1908]-2019; Majority of material found within 1952-2019
Collection
Archive of John Hungerford Pollen and the Pollen Family
The archive of John Hungerford Pollen (1820-1902), decorative artist and Roman Catholic convert, and the Pollen family, 1828-2017.
Extents: 6.0 Linear metres (44 boxes; 2 digital shelfmarks)
Dates:
1828-2017
Collection
Archive of Kenneth Grahame
Archive of Kenneth Grahame
Extents: 2.27 Linear metres (37 boxes)
Dates:
19th-20th century
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- Indexed names
- University of Oxford 6
- Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 3
- Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 3
- University of Oxford | Prizes 3
- Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2
- Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 2
- Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 2
- Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 2
- Grahame | Elspeth S | 1862-1946 2
- Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 2
- Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 2
- Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 2
- Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 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
- Terentius Afer | Publius | ? 195 BC-? 159 BC | Roman comic dramatist 2
- "Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
- Adcock | Arthur St John | 1864-1930 | Novelist 1
- Adcock | Marion L | fl 1879-1890 1
- Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 1
- Apollonius | b. 295 BC | of Rhodes | author and poet 1
- Arlott | (Leslie Thomas) John | 1914-1991 | writer and broadcaster 1
- Askew | Anthony | 1722-1774 | Classical Scholar, Physician, and Collector of MSS and Books 1
- Ault | Norman | 1880-1950 | Author and Artist 1
- Austen | Cassandra Elizabeth | 1773–1845 | sister of Jane Austen 1
- Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 1
- Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 1
- Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
- Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 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
- Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 1
- Bentley | Edmund Clerihew | 1875-1956 | Writer 1
- Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
- Blaker | Richard Sidney | 1893-1940 | Author 1
- Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 1
- Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 1
- Bodkin | Amy Maud | 1875-1967 | Author and Literary Critic 1
- Bodleian Library 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
- Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
- Bretherton | John Christopher | 1925-2015 1
- Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 1
- Brod | Max | 1884-1968 | author, composer and journalist 1
- Burges | George | 1786-1864 | classical scholar 1
- Cameron | Julia Margaret | 1815-1879 | photographer 1
- Cape | Herbert Jonathan | 1879-1960 | Publisher 1
- Caravella | Johannes | fl. 1730-1770 | classical scholar 1
- Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 1
- Chandler | Raymond | 1888-1959 | writer 1
- Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
- Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
- Church | Richard Thomas | 1893-1972 | poet and writer 1
- Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 1
- Conrad | Joseph | 1857-1924 | novelist 1
- Conran | Dame | Shirley Ida | 1932-2024 | writer 1
- Crespigny | Caroline Champion de | née Bathurst | 1796-1861 | poet 1
- David | Ottilie | b. 1892 1
- Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author 1
- Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 1
- Deneke | Margaret Clara Adele | 1882-1969 | Author and Musicologist 1
- Dougall | Lily | 1858-1923 | novelist and religious author 1
- EP Dutton & Co | New York | publishers 1
- Eddison | Eric Rucker | 1882-1945 | Author 1
- Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and children's writer 1
- England and Wales | Exchequer 1
- England and Wales | Royal Navy 1
- Eton College 1
- Evans | (Isabelle Dorothy) Joyce | née Dennys | 1893-1991 | artist and author 1
- Filler | Martin Myles | b.1948 | American architecture critic and writer 1
- Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror 1
- Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
- Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister 1
- Fraenkel | Eduard David Mortier | 1888-1970 | classical scholar 1
- Franklyn | Edna | née Lomas | 1903-1999 | dressmaker and writer 1
- French Protestant Church 1
- Gellhorn | 1908-1998| American novelist and journalist 1
- Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
- Godwin | family 1
- Gordimer | Nadine | 1923-2014 | writer 1
- Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 1
- Grahame | Elspeth | 1862-1946 | née Thomson | wife of Kenneth Grahame 1
- Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | Author and Secretary of the Bank of England 1
- Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 1
- Green | Leonard | fl 1906-1957 1
- Green | Peter Morris | 1924-2024 | scholar and writer 1
- Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville 1
- Griffith | Llewelyn Wyn | 1890-1977 | writer and broadcaster 1
- Grigson | Geoffrey Edward Harvey | 1905-1985 | poet and writer 1
- Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 1
- Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely 1
- Gutch | John | 1746-1831 | clergyman, antiquary, Registrar of Oxford University 1
- Haggard | Sir | (Henry) Rider | 1856-1925 | novelist 1
- Hamilton | Sir | George Rostrevor | 1888-1967 | Knight, Poet, Writer, and Civil Servant 1
- Harvey | Henry Stanley | 1911-1995 1
- Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 95
- Latin 15
- German 14
- French 13
- Italian 8
- Spanish; Castilian 6
- Danish 4
- Dutch; Flemish 4
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 4
- Greek, Modern (1453-) 3
- Norwegian 3
- Polish 3
- Catalan; Valencian 2
- Czech 2
- Hebrew 2
- Portuguese 2
- Russian 2
- Swedish 2
- Welsh 2
- Afrikaans 1
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