English literature | 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Correspondence, Alfred Edward Thiselton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-626
Scope and Contents
The correspondence is that between a number of persons and Thiselton on his Shakespearean publications. The correspondents, of some 40 in number, include W. Salt Brassington, F. J. Furnivall, and Israel Gollancz.
Dates:
[circa 1895]-1916
Correspondence and Memorandum of Agreement relating to John Middleton Murry
Fonds — Box CLX-A-480
Identifier: Coll-2100
Content Description
This fonds consists of three letters by John Middleton Murry, and a Memorandum of Agreement between him and Jonathan Cape, publishers. These documents are seemingly unrelated but were part of one single donation by the same person.
Two signed autograph letters from John Middleton Murry in his capacity as editor of The Adelphi. In the first, dated 13 June 1923, Murry...
Dates:
13 June and 5 December 1923; 17 March 1939; 5 October 1950
Correspondence between George Mackay Brown and Hugo Brunner
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1294
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection spans a period of 22 years from 1974 to 1996, and consists of several dozens of pages. The content tells of George Mackay Brown's annual cycle and his daily life, and particularly of visits of muses and other friends, as well as referring to publishing and contract matters. Included among the many individuals mentioned or referred to in the letters are: Ernest Marwick, Edwin Muir, Andrew Motion, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Hermann Palsson, Simon Fraser, Esther...
Dates:
1974-1996
Correspondence of Rev. Canon Andrew John Young
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-702
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of letters and postcards to close friends John Freeman and John Arlott, as well as analyses of religious questions in poetry. There are circa 20 autograph letters and 10 signed letters to Freeman, 1922-1927, and circa 100 autograph letters to Arlott from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection also includes BBC typescript broadcasts on The search for flowers, Some rare flowers of the west, ...
Dates:
1920-1971
Correspondence of Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-625
Scope and Contents
The correspondence consists of autographed letters from Koteliansky to Sir Sidney Philip Waterlow referring to much in the literature of the period including reference to D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, and Aldous Huxley.
Dates:
1929-1933
Five signed letters from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson relating to a planned Oxford History of English Literature
Fonds — Box CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1873
Scope and Contents
Three autograph and two typed letters signed, nine pages in total, written in Leeds from 25 December 1937 to 14 May 1939. Sent from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson, suggesting a commission for a collaboration with Edmund Blunden to produce a volume on the late 18th century for a planned Oxford History of English Literature and subsequently discussing aspects of its progress.
Dates:
25 December 1937-14 May 1939
John Wain Archive
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-29
Scope and Contents
Includes essays; drafts of, and corrections to The contenders, The take-over bid, and The smaller sky; revised text, and corrected typescript of The young visitors; publisher's copy of, and notebooks relating to A winter in the hills; revision to, and radio adaptation of A winter in the...
Dates:
1947-1994
Lecture notes on English literature and language, taken down by Marie Wilson Stuart
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2950
Scope and Contents
8 notebooks with lecture notes relating to English literature, language and dramatic performance, taken down by Marie Wilson Stuart. The first 7 volumes date from 1916-1919 when Stuart was a full time student at the University of Edinburgh, and the final volume is from a period of later study in the 1940s. See further detail below:
Coll-2950/1
English, 1916-1917. Professor Herbert Grierson. Printed reading list pasted to front board.
...
Dates:
1916-1919; 1943-1944
Lecture notes on English Literature given by Professor Herbert Grierson, taken down by Margaret Low and David Macrae Aitken
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2951
Scope and Contents
Fair copy of notes on lectures given by Herbert Grierson on English Literature, first taken down by Margaret Low. 77 lectures spanning October 1925-June 1926.A donation letter [22 January 1986] laid into volume 1 informs the then University Librarian, Brenda Moon, of the complex process behind creating these fair copies. The notes were written by Rev. David Macrae Aitken on behalf of his son, James Macrae Aitken. James was a Classics student at the University of Edinburgh in...
Dates:
1925-1926; Event: 20 January 1986
Lecture notes taken down by David H. Stam
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1028
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of Lecture notes on English Literature and Divinity taken down during 1955-1956, with the English Literature notes including:
- Dr. Johnson
- Critical Theory, given by A. M. Clarke
- The seventeenth century, also given by A. M. Clarke
There are also Supplementary notes on: Wordsworth; Shelley; Matthew...
Dates:
1955-1956