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The Abinger Papers

Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937
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Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

Correspondence and papers of the poet and writer Anne Ridler (1912-2001) and her husband Vivian Ridler (1913-2009), printer to the Oxford University Press and founder of Perpetua Press.
Extents: 5.596 Linear metres (81 boxes)
Dates: 1836-2011, n.d.; Majority of material found within 1927 - 2011
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Archive of Bruce Montgomery 'Edmund Crispin'

Archive of Bruce Montgomery, (1921-1978), detective novelist writing under the pseudonym of Edmund Crispin, and composer in his own name.
Extents: 28.5 Linear metres (187 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1921-78
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Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon

The archive of the poet and novelist C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] (1904-1972) and his wife, the actress Jill Balcon (1925-2009).
Extents: 9.3 Linear metres (66 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1928-2009; 1778-2009
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Archive of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin

Papers of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989), writer.
Extents: 18.92 Linear metres (175 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1963-1989
Collection

Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke

Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke
Extents: 1.70 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates: 1882-1969
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Archive of E.K. Chambers

Archive of E.K. Chambers, 1930
Extents: 0.33 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1930
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Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice

Papers of the poet and playwright Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), with papers of Hedli MacNeice, née Anderson (1907-1990)
Extents: 10.17 Linear metres (76 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1917-1989; n.d.
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Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: 1935-1964
Collection

Archive of Gillian and John Sutro

Papers of Gillian and John Sutro, 20th cent.
Extents: 22.77 Linear metres (207 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1893-1999, n.d.
Collection

Archive of Herbert Davis

Archive of Herbert Davis
Extents: 1.21 Linear metres (11 boxes)
Dates: 1933-67
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Archive of Joanna Richardson

Correspondence and papers of Joanna Richardson, 1928-2008, biographer, translator and French literary critic.
Extents: 1.54 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates: 1925-2007, n.d.
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Archive of Joanna Trollope

Archive of Joanna Trollope (born 1943), writer, including literary and personal papers, [1908]-2019.
Extents: 5.26 Linear metres (109 boxes)
Dates: [1908]-2019; Majority of material found within 1952-2019
Collection

Archive of John Everett Butt

Correspondence and notes of John Everett Butt, 1932-64.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1932-64
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Archive of John Hungerford Pollen and the Pollen Family

The archive of John Hungerford Pollen (1820-1902), decorative artist and Roman Catholic convert, and the Pollen family, 1828-2017.
Extents: 6.0 Linear metres (44 boxes; 2 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 1828-2017
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Archive of John Masefield

The archive of the poet, novelist and playwright John Masefield (1878-1967), Poet Laureate from 1930-1967.
Extents: 7.188 Linear metres (135 boxes)
Dates: 1901-1968
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Archive of Lily Dougall

Papers of Lily Dougall (1858-1923), novelist and religious author, 1869-1926.
Extents: 6.86 Linear metres (18 boxes)
Dates: 1869-1926
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Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century

Correspondence and literary papers of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), with papers of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Michael Pakenham Edgeworth and other members of the Edgeworth family, mainly 1778-1886.
Extents: 12.65 Linear metres (115 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1768-1849, 17th-19th century
Collection

Archive of Shirley Hughes

Original artwork and literary papers of Shirley Hughes (1927-1922), illustrator and author.
Extents: 20.6 Linear metres (86 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1945-2021
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Archive of Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, and his family

The archive of Sydney Olivier, first Baron Olivier, (1859-1943), civil servant, politician and author, and his family, particularly his wife Margaret (c.1862-1953).
Extents: 3.3 Linear metres (22 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1870s-1951

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20th century 115
English literature 81
English literature -- 20th century 58
19th century 46
English Literature 23
Literature 23
Humanities 22
18th century 18
Poetry 17
English literature -- 19th century 16
Literature -- 20th century 15
Poems 15
English poetry -- 20th century 14
21st century 13
Correspondence 13
English poetry 12
17th century 11
Novelists -- 20th century 11
Letters 10
Authors 8
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Children's literature 8
English literature -- 18th century 8
Poets 8
Authors -- 20th century 7
Novelists 7
Women authors, English -- 20th century 6
English literature -- 17th century 5
Lectures and lecturing 5
Religion 5
Women 5
Authors, English -- 20th century 4
Literary criticism 4
Sermons 4
Theater -- England 4
University of Oxford 4
Art 3
Authors -- 19th century 3
Authors, English -- 19th century 3
Children's stories, English 3
English language 3
Journalism 3
Letters -- 20th century 3
Manuscripts 3
Music 3
Photographs 3
Photography 3
Playwriting -- Drama 3
Poets -- 20th century 3
Art, British -- 20th century 2
Authors, English 2
Biography 2
Books and reading 2
Church Architecture | England 2
Diaries 2
Diaries -- 20th century 2
Drawing 2
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 2
English literature -- 16th century 2
English literature -- 21st century 2
English literature -- Old English, c.450-1100 2
English poetry -- 21st century 2
English poetry -- Women authors 2
History 2
Illustration of books 2
Inklings (Group of writers) 2
Journalists -- 20th century 2
Novelists -- 19th century 2
Oxford (England) 2
Poetry -- 20th century 2
Poetry, English 2
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 2
Politics and Government 2
Portrait photography 2
Publishers and publishing 2
Publishing 2
Theater 2
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 2
War poetry 2
Women scientists 2
16th century 1
Academic writing 1
Academics 1
Adventure stories 1
Anthroposophy 1
Archaeology 1
Art, British -- 19th century 1
Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Art, British -- 21st century 1
Art, Victorian -- England 1
Artists 1
Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 1
Autobiography 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 19th century 1
Book design 1
Books 1
Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- London 1
Calligraphy 1
Catalogs, Book 1
Catholic Church 1
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 12
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 5
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 5
Williams | Charles | 1886-1945 | author 5
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 4
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 4
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 3
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 3
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 3
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 3
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 3
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 3
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 2
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 2
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 2
Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2
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Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 2
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 2
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 2
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 2
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 2
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 2
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 2
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 2
Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Spender | Natasha | 1919-2010 | née Litvin | concert pianist 2
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | Author 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
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 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
Beckford | William Thomas | 1760-1844 | writer and art collector 1
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Beerbohm | Sir | Henry Maximilian | 1872-1956 | Knight | author and cartoonist 1
Bennett | Alan | b. 1934 | British playwright |screenwriter, actor, and author 1
Bennett | Thomas | 1665-1706 | London bookseller 1
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | Author 1
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 1
Birrell | Francis | 1889-1935 | writer 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 1
Bond | (Thomas) Michael | 1926-2017 | author 1
Bone | Lady | Gertrude Helena | 1876-1962 | née Dodd | writer 1
Bone | Sir | Muirhead | 1876-1953 | printmaker and draughtsman 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Byron | Anne Isabella | 1792-1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron | Social reformer and philanthropist 1
Byron | George Gordon | 1788-1824 | | 6th Baron Byron | poet 1
Cameron | Julia Margaret | 1815-1879 | photographer 1
Carroll | Lewis | 1832-1898 | see Dodgson Charles Lutwidge 1
Cawdray | Robert | fl 1600 | author of 'A Treasurie or Store-house of Similies' 1
Cecil | Lord | Edward Christian David Gascoyne | 1902-1986 | author 1
Chapman | Thomas | fl 1766 | author 1
Charles I | 1600-1649 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1
Charles | Williams | 1886-1945 | author 1
Chatwin | Charles Bruce | 1940-1989 | Writer 1
Clements | Henry | 1686-1719 | London bookseller 1
Cobb | Samuel |1675-1713 | schoolmaster and author 1
Cockburn | Sarah Caudwell | 1939-2000 | pseudonym Sarah Caudwell | barrister and novelist 1
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | university teacher and theatre producer 1
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | dramatist 1
Cook | Mariana R. | b.1955 | Photographer 1
Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author 1
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adele | 1882-1969 | Author and Musicologist 1
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 1
Dickens | Charles John Huffam | 1812-1870 | Novelist and Journalist 1
Digby | George | 1612-1677 | Politician 1
Digby | Sir | Kenelm | 1603-1665 | Knight | Author Naval Commander and Diplomat 1
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Dodgson | Charles Lutwidge | 1832-1898 | Author and Mathematician 1
Dougall | Lily | 1858-1923 | novelist and religious author 1
Earle | John | d. 1665 | Bishop 1
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and children's writer 1
Edgeworth | Michael Pakenham | 1812-1881 | Botanist 1
Finch | Edmund Rolfe | 1789-1831 | brewer 1
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 1
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Galsworthy | John | 1867-1933 | novelist and playwright 1
Gardner | Stanley | 1921-1996 | headmaster and writer 1
Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 1
Godwin | family 1
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 1
Greene | Vivien | 1904-2003 | nee Vivienne Dayrell-Browning | expert on antique dolls' houses 1
Harvey | Henry Stanley | 1911-1995 1
Heaney | Seamus | 1939-2013 | Poet and Lecturer 1
Hewitt | William Graily | 1864-1952 | Novelist and calligrapher 1
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Language
English 169
French 11
German 8
Italian 5
Latin 4
Spanish; Castilian 3
Chinese 2
Danish 2
Dutch; Flemish 2
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 2
Norwegian 2
Polish 2
Russian 2
Afrikaans 1
Catalan; Valencian 1
Czech 1
Estonian 1
Finnish 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Japanese 1
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Swedish 1
Welsh 1
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