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Basque literature 3
Bodleian Library 3
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Christianity -- 20th century 3
Cricket 3
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English Fiction -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 21st century 3
Folklore and children 3
Illustrations 3
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
Ireland 3
Journalists -- 20th century 3
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Exhibitions 3
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 57
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 14
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
University of Oxford 7
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 5
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 5
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 5
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 5
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 4
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 3
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 3
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 3
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 3
Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3
Lambert | Catherine | nee Read | b. 1918 | vocal coach 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Poynton | Arthur Blackburne | 1867-1944 | Greek scholar 3
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 3
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 2
Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 2
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 2
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 2
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2
Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author 2
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2
Dodds | Annie Edwards | 1886/7–1973 | née Powell | lecturer in English at Reading University 2
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 2
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 2
Fraenkel | Eduard David Mortier | 1888-1970 | classical scholar 2
Gibson | Wilfrid Wilson | 1878-1962 | Georgian poet 2
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 2
Grahame | Elspeth | 1862-1946 | née Thomson | wife of Kenneth Grahame 2
Grahame | Elspeth S | 1862-1946 2
Greene | Vivien | 1904-2003 | collector 2
Hardie | Frank Martin | fl. 1926-1977 | author 2
Heaney | Seamus | 1939-2013 | Poet and Lecturer 2
Henrey | Madeleine (Mrs Robert Henrey) | 13 Aug. 1906–25 April 2004 | authoress 2
Hermogenes | 161-180 | of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician 2
Hewitt | William Graily | 1864-1952 | Novelist and calligrapher 2
Hughes | Shirley | 1927-2022 | freelance author and illustrator 2
Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 2
Kennedy | Ludovic Henry Coverley | b 1919 | Writer and Broadcaster 2
Montgomery | Robert Bruce | 1921-1978 | Composer and writer as Edmund Crispin 2
Moore | Edward | 1835-1916 | Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 2
Mynors | Sir | Roger Aubrey Baskerville | 1903-1989 | Knight | classical scholar 2
Needham | Rodney | 1923-2006 | Anthropologist 2
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 2
Oxford University Writers' Club. 2
Pullman | Philip | b 1946 | writer 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Sassoon | Siegfried | 1886-1967 | poet 2
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 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
Stallworthy | Jon (Howie) | 1935-2014 | poet and literary critic 2
Streatfeild | Mary Noel | 1895-1986 | author 2
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 2
Thwaite | Ann Barbara | 1932 | née Harrop | biographer 2
Thwaite | Anthony | b. 1930 | poet and writer 2
Treby | Ivor | 1933-2012 | poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher 2
Trollope | Anthony | 1815-1882 | novelist 2
University of Oxford | Students 2
Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 2
Wordsworth | Christopher | fl. 1910 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

Typescript draft of Lace by Shirley Conran

 Collection
Typescript draft of Lace by Shirley Conran with research notebook
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1979-1991

Typescript draft, with manuscript corrections, of Joan O'Donovan, 'Cupid and my Campaspe'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 715
Typescript draft, with manuscript corrections, of Joan O'Donovan, 'Cupid and my Campaspe'
Extents: 284 Leaves
Dates: 1964-1965

Typescript drama in three acts by Don Giuseppe Rizzi about Cardinal J. H. Newman in Oxford, entitled 'Perdita e Guadagno'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. d. 20
Typescript drama in three acts by Don Giuseppe Rizzi about Cardinal J. H. Newman in Oxford, entitled 'Perdita e Guadagno'.
Extents: 46 Leaves
Dates: 20th century

Typescript drama in verse, 'Love’s Eve', by Walter de la Mare

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 220
Typescript drama in verse, ‘Love’s Eve’, by Walter de la Mare.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: 1903

Typescript essay by F. N. Decker, 'Historical background-arts, skills and needs-of ancient and modern farming'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 375
Typescript essay by F. N. Decker, 'Historical background-arts, skills and needs-of ancient and modern farming'
Extents: 58 Leaves
Dates: 1961

Typescript essay by Henry Essex entitled 'Remarkable revelations of Shakespeare's sonnets'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 305
Typescript essay by Henry Essex entitled 'Remarkable revelations of Shakespeare's sonnets'
Extents: 24 Leaves
Dates: 1911

Typescript essay by Marian Kurdzialek, 'Davidis de Dinanto quaternulorum fragmenta', in English

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 791
Typescript essay by Marian Kurdzialek, 'Davidis de Dinanto quaternulorum fragmenta', in English
Extents: 83 Leaves
Dates: 20th century

Typescript letter from Stephen Leacock

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fol. 89
Typescript letter from Stephen Leacock, 1925.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1925

Typescript memoirs of G. E. Shrimpton, a London solicitor brought up in Thame, Oxon., entitled 'Memories of a mediocrity'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 496
Typescript memoirs of G. E. Shrimpton, a London solicitor brought up in Thame, Oxon., entitled 'Memories of a mediocrity'
Extents: 293 Leaves
Dates: 1958

Typescript of an unpublished novel by Alice Lee, 'A Master of Silence'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1452
Typescript of an unpublished novel by Alice Lee, 'A Master of Silence'
Extents: 315 Leaves
Dates: early 20th century

Typescript of 'Bertie's Escapade' by Kenneth Grahame

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 15600
Typescript of 'Bertie's Escapade' by Kenneth Grahame.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1907-2008

Typescript of J. I. M. Stewart 'The Aylwins', as published, London

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 481
Typescript of J. I. M. Stewart 'The Aylwins', as published, London
Extents: 327 Leaves
Dates: 1966

Typescript of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 133
Typescript of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates: c. 1967

Typescript of the Wiles lecture for 1965 by Sir Maurice Bowra, entitled 'Poetry and politics, 1900-60'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 685
Typescript of the Wiles lecture for 1965 by Sir Maurice Bowra, entitled 'Poetry and politics, 1900-60'
Extents: 228 Leaves
Dates: 1965-1966

Typescript of unpublished work by Samuel Dobrin entitled 'Towards a study of Soviet law and government'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 521
Typescript of unpublished work by Samuel Dobrin entitled 'Towards a study of Soviet law and government'
Extents: 287 Leaves
Dates: 1956-1958

Typescript play about Sir Walter Raleigh, entitled 'The Flag', by W. L. M. Lee

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 77
Typescript play about Sir Walter Raleigh, entitled 'The Flag', by W. L. M. Lee
Extents: 47 Leaves
Dates: Before 1955

Typescript play by Alfred Riley entitled 'Lucius and Lucretia'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 28
Typescript play by Alfred Riley entitled 'Lucius and Lucretia'
Extents: 116 Leaves
Dates: c. 1920

Typescript play by Edward Gordon, 'Bernard of Clairvaux. A mystery-play in five tableaux'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 792
Typescript play by Edward Gordon, 'Bernard of Clairvaux. A mystery-play in five tableaux'
Extents: 61 Leaves
Dates: 1963

Typescript play by Stanislaw Kazimierczyk entitled 'Czarna Perła'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Polish d. 1
Typescript play by Stanislaw Kazimierczyk, 1965, entitled 'Czarna Perła'.
Extents: 105 Leaves
Dates: 1965, n.d.

Typescript play, 'Such is Life: a sketch in two scenes', by Florence Hopkins

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 882, fols. 17-41
Typescript play, 'Such is Life', by Florence Hopkins
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: early 20th century