Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts

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Collection 347

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20th century 219

English literature 161

English literature -- 20th century 122

19th century 94

English literature -- 19th century 40

English Literature 38

Humanities 37

18th century 36

Poetry 36

Literature 34

Letters 29

17th century 27

Poems 27

21st century 25

English poetry 20

Correspondence 18

English poetry -- 20th century 17

Literature -- 20th century 17

Authors -- 20th century 14

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Novelists -- 20th century 13

Poets 13

Children's literature 12

Religion 11

Authors 10

English language 10

Novelists 8

Art 7

English literature -- 17th century 7

Lectures and lecturing 7

16th century 6

Manuscripts 6

Women authors, English -- 20th century 6

Commonplace books 5

Diaries 5

English poetry -- 19th century 5

Journalism 5

Letters -- 20th century 5

Poets -- 20th century 5

Sermons 5

Theater -- England 5

Women 5

Authors -- 19th century 4

Authors, English -- 20th century 4

Diaries -- 20th century 4

Drama 4

English literature -- 21st century 4

Ireland 4

Literary criticism 4

Photographs 4

Photography 4

Playwriting -- Drama 4

University of Oxford 4

Art, British -- 20th century 3

Authors, English 3

Authors, English -- 19th century 3

Children's stories, English 3

Childrens literature -- 20th century 3

English literature -- 16th century 3

History 3

Illustration of books 3

Letters -- 19th century 3

Music 3

Novelists -- 19th century 3

Poetry -- 20th century 3

Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 3

Politics and Government 3

Theater 3

War poetry 3

x - 15th century 3

Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 2

Art, British -- 21st century -- Exhibitions 2

Artists 2

Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 2

Biography 2

Books and reading 2

Calligraphy 2

Christianity -- 20th century 2

Church Architecture | England 2

Dissertations, Academic 2

Drama -- 19th century 2

Drawing 2

England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 2

English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 2

English literature -- Old English, c.450-1100 2

English poetry -- 17th century 2

English poetry -- 18th century 2

English poetry -- 21st century 2

English poetry -- Women authors 2

Germany 2

Illustrations 2

Inklings (Group of writers) 2

Journalists -- 20th century 2

Latin literature 2

Oxford (England) 2

Oxfordshire (England) 2

Philosophy 2

Poetry, English 2

Portrait photography 2

Publishers and publishing 2

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Indexed names

Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 43

Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8

Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 7

Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 6

Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6

Williams | Charles | 1886-1945 | author 6

Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 5

Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4

Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 4

Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 4

Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 4

Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 4

Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4

Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4

Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 4

Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4

Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 4

Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 4

Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3

Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 3

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Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3

Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 3

Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 3

Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 3

MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 3

Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3

Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 3

Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 2

Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 2

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

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

Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 2

Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2

Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2

Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 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

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

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

Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | Author 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

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

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

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 | British playwright |screenwriter, actor, and author 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

Betjeman | Penelope | 1910-1986 | writer 1

Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 1

Bide | Peter | Reverend | 1912-2003 | priest 1

Birrell | Francis | 1889-1935 | writer 1

Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1

Blaker | Richard Sidney | 1893-1940 | Author 1

Bles | (David) Geoffrey | 1886-1957 | publisher 1

Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | antiquary and editor 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

Bradley | A. C. | fl. 1895 1

Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 1

Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 1

Brooke | Stopford Augustus | 1832-1916 | preacher and writer 1

Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1

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Language

English 342

French 16

Latin 15

German 8

Italian 6

Spanish; Castilian 3

Chinese 2

Danish 2

Dutch; Flemish 2

Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 2

Norwegian 2

Polish 2

Russian 2

Afrikaans 1

English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1

Catalan; Valencian 1

Cornish 1

Czech 1

English, Middle (1100-1500) 1

Estonian 1

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Finnish 1

Irish 1

Greek, Modern (1453-) 1

Japanese 1

Swedish 1

Welsh 1

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Collection

A copy of Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare's Works (6 vols., Lond. 1725) 1

Additional papers of Adam Fox 1

Archive of (Arthur) St. John Adcock 1

Archive of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin 1

Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler 1

Archive of Bruce Montgomery 'Edmund Crispin' 1

Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon 1

Archive of Clara Sophie Deneke 1

Archive of E.K. Chambers 1

Archive of E.R. Eddison 1

Archive of Edith Teresa Noel-Hill (née Hulton), Lady Berwick 1

Archive of Edmund Clerihew Bentley 1

Archive of Ethel Sidgwick 1

Archive of Evelyn Sharp 1

Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice 1

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson 1

Archive of Gillian and John Sutro 1

Archive of H.W. Nevinson 1

Archive of Herbert Davis 1

Archive of Joanna Richardson 1

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Archive of Joanna Trollope 1

Archive of John Everett Butt 1

Archive of John Hungerford Pollen and the Pollen Family 1

Archive of John Masefield 1

Archive of Lily Dougall 1

Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century 1

Archive of R.S. Blaker 1

Archive of Robert Stephen Hawker 1

Archive of Shirley Hughes 1

Archive of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers 1

Archive of Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, and his family 1

Archive of Vivien Greene 1

Archive of William Beckford 1

Archive of the Benson Family 1

Archive of the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families 1

Archive of the Tilling Society (E.F. Benson and the Benson Family) 1

Beddoes and Edgeworth family papers 1

Collection of photographic portraits by Mariana Cook 1

Correspondence between Charles Williams and Phyllis Jones 1

Evan Jones Archive 1

Four albums compiled by Brian Aldiss 1

Gough Collection 1

Jane Austen autograph manuscript: 'Volume the First' 1

Lectures, Essays, and Notes of D. Nichol Smith 1

Letters and papers of Charles Williams 1

Letters and papers of Edmund Blunden and family 1

Letters from Kingsley Amis to Philip Larkin 1

Letters from Maria Edgeworth to Peter Holland and letters from Sir Henry Holland to Maria Edgeworth, Lucy Aikin and Peter Holland 1

Letters from Robert ('Jock') Liddell to Robert Smith 1

Letters from Walter de la Mare to Richard de la Mare 1

Letters of Iris Murdoch to David Hicks 1

Letters to C.S. Lewis from American schoolchildren sent to his New York publishers, Macmillan 1

Letters, correspondence, and poems collected by Professor C. H. Firth 1

Literary Manuscripts and Correspondence of James Elroy Flecker 1

Literary Manuscripts of E.F. Benson 1

Literary Manuscripts of Sarah Cockburn [pseudonym Sarah Caudwell] 1

Literary papers of Charles Williams 1

Literary papers of Elizabeth Jenkins 1

M.T.H. Sadleir Manuscript 1

Manuscripts and papers of Charles Williams 1

Natasha Spender papers 1

Papers of Alfred Edgar Coppard 1

Papers of Ernest Walker 1

Papers of Hilary Walton relating to Barbara Pym 1

Papers of Martyn Skinner 1

Papers of Robert Ross and Vyvyan Holland relating to the Literary Estate of Oscar Wilde 1

Papers of Stephen Spender 1

Photocopies of Literary Works by Martin Amis, Ian Hamilton and Paul Griffiths 1

Photocopies of Papers Relating to Jonathan Swift, collected by Professor Herbert Davis 1

Poems and Letters of Jonathan Swift 1

Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions) 1

Stanley Family Papers 1

The Abinger Papers 1

The John Ryder Archive 1

Transcripts by T.F. Kelsall of Works by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1

Two autograph letters written by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra Austen 1

Two seventeenth century manuscripts relating to Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia 1

Works of J.S. Knowles 1

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