Literary manuscripts of Thomas Blackburn, with some correspondence and other material ca. 1893-1988

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Literary manuscripts of Thomas Blackburn, with some correspondence and other material ca. 1893-1988

18 boxes; manuscript, typescript, photographs, press cuttings, and printed material (partly photocopy).

eng,

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Blackburn Margaret McGuire

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Blackburn, Thomas, 1916-1977

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Born 10 February 1916 at Hensingham, Cumberland, the son of an Anglican clergyman, Blackburn later chronicled his traumatic youth in his fictionalised autobiography A clip of steel . After an abortive period at Cambridge, he studied English at Durham University (B.A. 1937-40, M.A. in absentia 1950). He was Gregory Poetry Fellow at the University of Leeds 1956-1958 and became a lecturer in English at the College of St Mark and St John (attached to London University) in 1960. When the College relo...

Gatien Dominique

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