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20th century 252
English literature 250
English literature -- 20th century 130
19th century 104
Humanities 89
Literature 45
21st century 44
Poetry 44
English literature -- 19th century 43
18th century 37
Letters 30
English poetry 29
17th century 28
Poems 28
English poetry -- 20th century 24
Authors -- 20th century 19
Correspondence 19
Literature -- 20th century 19
Poets 19
Novelists -- 20th century 18
Children's literature -- 20th century 17
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
English literature -- 21st century 8
English poetry -- Women authors 8
Lectures and lecturing 8
University of Oxford 8
Women authors, English -- 20th century 8
Commonplace books 7
English literature -- 17th century 7
English poetry -- 19th century 7
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
16th century 6
History 6
Letters -- 20th century 6
Manuscripts 6
Photographs 6
Poets -- 20th century 6
Authors -- 19th century 5
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 5
Diaries 5
Journalism 5
Poets, English -- Correspondence 5
Sermons 5
Theater -- England 5
University of Oxford -- Students 5
Women 5
Books and reading 4
Diaries -- 20th century 4
Drama 4
Ireland 4
Literary criticism 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
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
Journalists -- 20th century 3
Letters -- 19th century 3
Music 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
Devon (England) 2
Diaries -- 19th century 2
Dissertations, Academic 2
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

Books from the library of David Cornwell (John le Carré) at Tregiffian, his home in Cornwall

 Collection
Books from the library of David Cornwell (John le Carré) at Tregiffian, his home in Cornwall, 1973-2015.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates: 1973-2015

Bound autograph manuscript of Gertrude Bone, Children's Children (1908), with illustrations by Muirhead Bone

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22129
Bound autograph manuscript of Gertrude Bone, Children's Children, with illustrations by Muirhead Bone, [1907].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1907]

Cassiodorus, De anima, translated into English by G.E. Bevan, with the collaboration of A.B. Turner and H. Palmer, from the French version of Stephane de Rouville

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. c. 92
Cassiodorus, De anima, translated into English by G.E. Bevan, with the collaboration of A.B. Turner and H. Palmer, from the French version of Stephane de Rouville.
Extents: 35 Leaves
Dates: 1977

Catalogue of an unidentified library, mainly of books published 1800-50 on English literature and European history

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 110
Catalogue of an unidentified library, mainly of books published 1800-50 on English literature and European history
Extents: 139 Leaves
Dates: 1800-1810

Christmas card from Priscilla Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien to Pauline Baynes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8410, fols. 151-152
Christmas card from Priscilla Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien to Pauline Baynes, c.1971-1972
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: c.1971-1972

Christopher Smart, Rejoice in the Lamb

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 13
Christopher Smart, Rejoice in the Lamb.
Extents: 32 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. th. d. 15
Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn, curate of Adwick-le-Street, near Doncaster, Yorks.
Extents: 159 Leaves
Dates: 1532-1565

Collection of photographic portraits by Mariana Cook

 Collection
15 silver gelatin photographic prints by Mariana R. Cook. 6 works depicting tools, and 9 portraits of notable figures.
Extents: 0.7 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1987-2021

Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 57
Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others.
Extents: 82 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind')

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 158
Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind').
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23614
Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c. 1822-1852

A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 284
A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc., written about A.D. 1820-1830.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: written about A.D. 1820-1830

Commonplace book of Florence Mary Tolkien

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 20930
Commonplace book of Florence Mary Tolkien.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1877-1888

Commonplace book of Thomas Chapman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 2409
Commonplace book of Thomas Chapman
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: 1762-1770

Contemporary copy of a treatise Judicature in parliament

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 223
Contemporary copy of a treatise Judicature in parliament, c.1625.
Extents: 146 pages
Dates: c.1625

Copies of three letters from Andrew Marvell

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 119, fols. 127-140
Copies of three letters from Andrew Marvell.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1670-1674

Copy, in several hands, of The provok'd husband: or A journey to London, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 353
Copy, in several hands, of The provok'd husband: or A journey to London, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber
Extents: 166 Leaves
Dates: 18th century

A copy of 'A Direction for the English Traviller' (Lond. 1636)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Gen. Top. 8°. 628
A copy of 'A Direction for the English Traviller' (Lond. 1636)
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1636

A copy of Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare's Works (6 vols., Lond. 1725)

 Collection
A copy of Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare's Works (6 vols., Lond. 1725)
Extents: 0.66 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates: 1725

Copy of Dudley North, fourth Baron North, prose and poetry

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 167
Copy of Dudley North, fourth Baron North, prose and poetry.
Extents: 119 Leaves
Dates: 17th century copy