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English literature 254
20th century 253
English literature -- 20th century 131
19th century 106
Humanities 93
Literature 45
21st century 44
Poetry 44
English literature -- 19th century 43
18th century 37
English poetry 32
Letters 30
17th century 28
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Poets 20
Authors -- 20th century 19
Correspondence 19
Literature -- 20th century 19
Novelists -- 20th century 19
Children's literature -- 20th century 18
English literature -- 18th century 15
Authors 13
English poetry -- 21st century 12
Novelists -- 19th century 12
Religion 12
Authors, English -- 20th century 11
English language 11
Art 10
Authors, English 10
University of Oxford 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
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English literature -- 21st century 8
English poetry -- 19th century 8
English poetry -- Women authors 8
Lectures and lecturing 8
English literature -- 17th century 7
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
16th century 6
History 6
Letters -- 20th century 6
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Poets -- 20th century 6
Women 6
Authors -- 19th century 5
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 5
Diaries 5
Journalism 5
Literary criticism 5
Poets, English -- Correspondence 5
Sermons 5
Theater -- England 5
University of Oxford -- Students 5
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Diaries -- 20th century 4
Drama 4
Ireland 4
Oxford (England) 4
Photography 4
Playwriting -- Drama 4
Poetry -- 20th century 4
Art, British -- 20th century 3
Artists 3
Authors, English - 21st century 3
Authors, English -- 19th century 3
Authors, English -- Correspondence 3
Calligraphy 3
Children's stories, English 3
Christianity -- 20th century 3
English Fiction -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 16th century 3
English poetry -- 18th century 3
Fantasy fiction 3
Illustration of books 3
Illustrations 3
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
Journalists -- 20th century 3
Letters -- 19th century 3
Music 3
Poetry, English 3
Poets, English 3
Politics and Government 3
Portrait photography 3
Religious literature, English 3
Science fiction 3
Theater 3
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 3
War poetry 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
x - 15th century 3
Academics 2
Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 2
Art, British -- 21st century -- Exhibitions 2
Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 2
Biography 2
Christianity 2
Church Architecture | England 2
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 45
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
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
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 5
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 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
University of Oxford 5
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 4
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 4
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | 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
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 3
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 3
University of Oxford | Students 3
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 2
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 2
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 2
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 2
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 2
Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2
Dodgson | Charles Lutwidge | 1832-1898 | author, mathematician and photographer known as Lewis Carroll 2
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 2
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 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
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 2
Hewitt | William Graily | 1864-1952 | Novelist and calligrapher 2
Hughes | Shirley | 1927-2022 | freelance author and illustrator 2
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 2
Lamb | Charles | 1775-1834 | essayist and humorist 2
Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 2
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 2
Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Spender | Natasha | 1919-2010 | née Litvin | concert pianist 2
Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 2
Tolkien | Priscilla Mary Reuel | 1929-2022 | daughter of J.R.R. Tolkien 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
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | writer and politician 1
Aikin | Lucy | 1781-1864 | historian 1
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 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
Ashburnham | Bertrum | 1797-1878 | 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1
Austen | Cassandra Elizabeth | 1773–1845 | sister of Jane Austen 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Banmer | Sir | Thomas | d. 1746 1
Bayley | John Oliver | 1925-2015 | literary critic and novelist 1
Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 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
Bennett | Thomas | 1665-1706 | London bookseller 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

Prize winning essays and poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23165
Comprises printout copies of: Poem 'Leaving you by train through England' by Howard Anglin, Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize Poem 'Trente et Quarante' by Jennifer Kim, Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize Essay 'A Conversational Study With A Tempestuous Figure' by Oliver Bingham, Matthew Arnold Prize Poem 'Outermost' by Nicholas Stone, Sir Roger Newdigate...
Extents: 1 box (1 folder)
Dates: 2023

Prize winning essays and poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2024

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23781
Prize winning essays and poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2024.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2024

Prize winning poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2025

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 6, fols. 37-44.
Prize winning poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2025.
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: 2025

Reading journal of Henrietta Nevill, kept in Bath, Tunbridge Wells and London.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12395
Reading journal of Henrietta Nevill
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: c. 1802-c. 1804

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

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

“Relics of Youth”, verses by William Vincent of Chelsea

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 207
“Relics of Youth”, verses by William Vincent of Chelsea.
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates: 1815-1827, c. 1830

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

A scrap book on coloured paper, containing among printed papers ranging from 1837 to 1877

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 10
A scrap book on coloured paper, containing among printed papers ranging from 1837 to 1877
Extents: 200 Leaves
Dates: Partly written about A.D. 1830-1840

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

Series of 22 letters from Charles Lamb to William Godwin

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23682
22 letters from Charles Lamb (1775-1834) to William Godwin (1756-1836), 4 Dec 1800-[26 Jul 1827].
Extents: 0.08 Linear metres
Dates: 4 Dec 1800-[26 Jul 1827]

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.)

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

Speech delivered by Ali Smith at the opening of the Bodleian Library's Which Jane Austen? exhibition

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fol. 29
Speech delivered by Ali Smith at the opening of the Bodleian Library's Which Jane Austen? exhibition.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: Jun 2017

Stanley Family Papers

 Collection
Stanley Family Papers.
Extents: 0.20 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1820-1830

Stories and verse by Charles Oriano, typescript with manuscript corrections

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 308
Stories and verse by Charles Oriano, typescript with manuscript corrections
Extents: 168 Leaves
Dates: 20th century

The Stoughton manuscript of English poetry

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 157
The Stoughton manuscript of English poetry.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: original dated 17th century