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20th century 571
Literature 277
English literature 153
English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 94
19th century 80
Letters 61
Poetry 61
21st century 49
English poetry -- 20th century 37
Poets 37
Children's literature -- 20th century 33
Literature -- 20th century 31
Authors -- 20th century 28
Authors 22
English poetry 20
Novelists -- 20th century 18
Correspondence 17
Poems 17
Letters -- 20th century 16
18th century 15
Playwriting -- Drama 15
English literature -- 19th century 14
Authors, English -- 20th century 13
Novelists -- 19th century 13
Manuscripts 12
Religion 12
Authors, English 11
Art 9
Classical literature 9
Lectures and lecturing 9
Literature -- Translations 9
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9
17th century 8
Essays 8
History 8
Literary criticism 8
Poetry -- 20th century 8
Women authors, English -- 20th century 8
Biography 7
English language 7
English poetry -- Women authors 7
German literature 7
Music 7
Photographs 7
Poets -- 20th century 7
University of Oxford 7
War poetry 7
16th century 6
Authors -- 19th century 6
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 6
English literature -- 18th century 6
Journalism 6
Oxford (England) 6
Poets, English -- Correspondence 6
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 6
World War, 1914-1918 6
Diaries 5
Diaries -- 20th century 5
English poetry -- 21st century 5
Fantasy fiction 5
Publishers and publishing 5
Academic writing 4
Art, British -- 20th century 4
Artists 4
French literature 4
Germany 4
Greek literature 4
Illustration of books 4
Photography 4
Publishing 4
Radio broadcasting -- Great Britain 4
Science fiction 4
Sermons 4
Spanish literature 4
Theater -- England 4
Africa 3
Africa -- Description and travel 3
Africa -- History -- 20th century 3
Agriculture -- Kenya 3
Anthropology 3
Autobiography 3
Basque literature 3
Bodleian Library 3
Calligraphy 3
Children's stories, English 3
Christianity -- 20th century 3
Cricket 3
Dissertations, Academic 3
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 3
English Fiction -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 21st century 3
Folklore and children 3
Illustrations 3
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
Ireland 3
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Exhibitions 3
Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 3
Land settlement -- Kenya 3
Philosophy 3
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

Auction catalogue for the sale of Warren Lewis’s personal effects

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 1-11
Auction catalogue for the sale of Warren Lewis’s personal effects, Buckell & Ballard, Banbury, Tuesday 30 Oct 1973.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 30 Oct 1973

Author's typescript of 'Shakespeare and costume' by Cumberland Clark

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 150
Author's typescript of 'Shakespeare and costume' by Cumberland Clark
Extents: 283 Leaves
Dates: 1937

Autobiography of Mrs. L. Hewitt

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 440
Autobiography of Mrs. L. Hewitt, daughter of Heinrich Krebs, Librarian of the Taylor Institution, 1931, entitled 'The chronicle of Wisa Dingeldey from 4 to 17 by Herself'.
Extents: 370 Leaves
Dates: 1900-1901

Autograph draft of The house of the octopus by Charles Williams, published, London

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 128
Autograph draft of The house of the octopus by Charles Williams, published, London, 1945.
Extents: 195 Leaves
Dates: 1945

Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fol. 27
Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1949

Barbara Anne Pertzel, 'Frederic Madden and Havelok the Dane An original moment in the history of editing Middle English verse romance', Ph.D thesis, University of Melborne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3220
Barbara Anne Pertzel, 'Frederic Madden and Havelok the Dane An original moment in the history of editing Middle English verse romance', Ph.D thesis, University of Melborne
Extents: 331 Leaves
Dates: 1997

'Basque miscellanea'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Basque d. 3
'Basque miscellanea'
Extents: 23 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1901-1902

Beddoes and Edgeworth family papers

 Collection
Papers relating to the Beddoes and Edgeworth family.
Extents: 3.21 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: late 17th century-1942

Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8239
An unbound proof copy of Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby
Extents: 412 Leaves
Dates: [c.2013]

The Book of Dust bag

 Single Item
Shelfmark: JL 1002
The Book of Dust bag
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2017

Books and papers of James Blish (1921-75)

 Collection
Books and papers of James Blish (1921-75), science fiction writer.
Extents: 44.1 Linear metres (441 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c. 1936-77

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]

'The burial in England' by James Elroy Flecker

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 155
'The burial in England' by James Elroy Flecker
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: October-December 1914

Carbon typescript by Kingsley Amis, 'English Non-dramatic Poetry, 1850-1900, and the Victorian Reading Public'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5251
Carbon typescript by Kingsley Amis, 'English Non-dramatic Poetry, 1850-1900, and the Victorian Reading Public'
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1950

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

Archive of Sir Malcolm Pasley

 Collection
Archive of Sir Malcolm Pasley (1926-2004), with the majority of papers relating to Franz Kafka, 1910-2002, n.d.
Extents: 5 Linear metres (20 boxes)
Dates: 1910-2002, n.d.

'Causes et conduite de la guerre sud-africaine par A. Conan Doyle ... traduit par H. W. G. Markheim'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Fr. d. 2
'Causes et conduite de la guerre sud-africaine par A. Conan Doyle ... traduit par H. W. G. Markheim'
Extents: 328 Leaves
Dates: Partly written in A.D. 1902 by H. W. G. Markheim

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

Collection of hand-painted poetry booklets by Jesse Glass

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3900
Collection of hand-painted poetry booklets by Jesse Glass
Extents: 9 items
Dates: 1981-2009