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Indexed subjects

20th century 251

English literature 249

English literature -- 20th century 130

19th century 103

Humanities 87

Literature 44

Poetry 44

21st century 43

English literature -- 19th century 43

18th century 37

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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

Children's literature -- 20th century 17

Novelists -- 20th century 17

English literature -- 18th century 14

Authors 13

English poetry -- 21st century 12

Novelists -- 19th century 12

Religion 12

English language 11

Art 10

Authors, English 10

Authors, English -- 20th century 10

English literature -- 21st century 8

English poetry -- Women authors 8

Lectures and lecturing 8

University of Oxford 8

English literature -- 17th century 7

English poetry -- 19th century 7

Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7

Women authors, English -- 20th century 7

16th century 6

Commonplace books 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

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 -- 19th century 3

Authors, English -- Correspondence 3

Books and reading 3

Calligraphy 3

Children's stories, English 3

Christianity -- 20th century 3

English Fiction -- 20th century 3

English literature -- 16th century 3

Fantasy fiction 3

Illustration of books 3

Inklings (Group of writers) 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

Authors, English - 21st century 2

Biography 2

Christianity 2

Church Architecture | England 2

Devon (England) 2

Dissertations, Academic 2

Drama -- 19th century 2

Drawing 2

England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 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

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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

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Language

English 395

Latin 19

French 18

German 10

Italian 6

Spanish; Castilian 5

Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 3

English, Old (ca.450-1100) 2

Chinese 2

Danish 2

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Dutch; Flemish 2

English, Middle (1100-1500) 2

Irish 2

Norwegian 2

Polish 2

Russian 2

Welsh 2

Afrikaans 1

Catalan; Valencian 1

Celtic languages 1

Cornish 1

Czech 1

Estonian 1

Finnish 1

Greek, Modern (1453-) 1

Hungarian 1

Japanese 1

Swedish 1

Undetermined 1

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