Mervyn Peake Archive c 1921-2001

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991

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English novelist. From the description of Autograph and typewritten letters and notes signed "Graham" (62) : London, etc., to his brother, Herbert, 1945 May 11-1955 Sept. 12 and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270497418 From the description of Graham Greene letters to Mercia Harrison, 1945-1990. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 465279409 English writer and dramatist. From the description of Graham Greene Collecti...

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995

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Sir Stephen Harold Spender (February 28, 1909 - July 16, 1995) was an English poet and novelist who worked with the themes of social injustice and class struggle. Spender was born in London and educated at University College, Oxford. He was mentored by W. H. Auden with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. He edited Horizon with Cyril Connolly from 1939-1941. Following WW II, Spender devoted his time to criticism, co-editing the magazine Encounter from 1953-1966. Spender also held a number ...

Bagnold, Enid, 1889-1981

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Enid Bagnold, a twentieth-century British author, is best known for her novel National Velvet (1935) and her play "The Chalk Garden" (1955). Born in Rochester, England she spent much of her early life abroad. As a child Bagnold lived in Jamaica where her father was stationed with the Royal Engineers. She was educated in Germany and France. During World War I, Bagnold served in an English hospital and drove an ambulance for the French army. Drawing on these expe...

Peake, Ernest Cromwell, 1874-1950

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McKinley, Hazel Guggenheim, 1903-1995

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Gordon, Dorothy, 1895-1972

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Gilmore, Maeve.

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Maeve Patricia Gilmore was born on 14 June 1917, one of the six children of Dr Owen Gilmore and his wife Matty Gilmore, née Carr. Maeve grew up on Acre Lane, Brixton, and received a convent education as befitted her Irish catholic background, before attending a Swiss finishing school. In 1936 Maeve enrolled at Westminster School of Art to study sculpture (changing to painting some time later). On her first day at Westminster she met her future husband, Mervyn Peake, who...

Peake, Sebastian, b 1940

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Gollancz, Victor, 1893-1967

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Epithet: publisher and author Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0000b8 Victor Gollancz (1893-1967) was educated at St. Paul's School and New College, Oxford. Having been judged unfit for foreign service during the First World War, he spent the period teaching at Repton. In 1920 Gollancz began his first job in publishing, working for Benn's publishing ho...

Royal Society of Literature, 1820-

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Lee, Laurie

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Berger, John Peter, b 1926

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Tynan, Kenneth, 1927-1980

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Epithet: theatre critic and impresario British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x00000d Director and theater personality. Kenneth Tynan, born in Birmingham, England, stuttered as a child but was highly precocious, and was already keeping a diary by the age of six. A brilliant pupil at Kind Edward's School in Birmingham, Tynan won a scholarship to Oxford at the end of WWII, where he became an intellectual and soc...

Knight, Esmond, 1906-1987

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Epithet: actor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001027.0x00036e ...

Folio Society, publishers, Unspecified

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Watney, John, active 1966-1981, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x000144 ...

Peake, Fabian, b 1942

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Treece, Henry William, Unspecified, writer

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Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000

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English actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed and autograph postal card signed : Petersfield, to Denys Blakelock, 1958 Dec. 10 and [1959] Sept. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870929 Access to the archive was provided to Piers Paul Read who wrote the authorised biography of Alec Guinness. Therefore the archive, to some extent, has been arranged and information has been collected and added by Read. The impact of his use of the archive is most noticeable...

Gotlieb, Howard B.

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Epithet: of Boston University Library British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0000ab ...

Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968

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Dent, J M and Sons, publishers, Unspecified

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Mervyn Peake Review, 1975-1997

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Mervyn Peake Society

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Hall, Sir, Peter Reginald Frederick, b 1930

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Bell, John, Unspecified, of Oxford University Press

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