Theodora Bosanquet papers, 1898-1960.

Sitwell, Edith Louisa, Dame, 1887-1964

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Edith Sitwell was born on September 7, 1887 in Scarborough, England to Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison. In 1913, one of her earliest poems, “Drowned Suns”, was published in The Daily Mirror. Three years later, Sitwell began editing Wheels, an anthology of new verse that sparked controversy among conservative critics. In the 1920s, Sitwell and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, became known for their avant-garde literary work. Sitwell ...

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

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Epithet: writer and scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000021 C. S. Lewis was an Oxford professor, a Christian apologist, and a novelist, essayist and critic. From the description of C.S. Lewis collection. [1939]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 667850821 One of Britain's foremost literary and philosophical scholars, C. S. Lewis was Professor of Medieva...

De la Pasture, Edmée Elizabeth Monica, 1890-1943

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Kelley, Cornelia Pulsifer, 1897-1972

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George, Daniel pseud.

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Brenan, Gerald, 1894-

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Squire, John Collings, Sir, 1884-1958

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English poet, literary critic, and magazine editor. From the description of Rivers, 1917. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31042218 Jack Squire was an English poet. He also edited "The London Mercury: a Monthly Review of Literature & the Arts". From the description of Jack Squire collection. [1933]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 676800204 Squire was born in Plymouth, England on Apr. 2, 1884; educated at St. John'...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...

Lowery, Bruce

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De Beausobre, Iulia.

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Hart-Davis, Rupert, 1907-1999

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Rupert Hart-Davis was a publisher, author, and man-of-letters. Born in London, he attended Eton College and Oxford University; he became an actor for a time, entering the publishing world in 1929 and working for William Heinemann, Ltd., and later Jonathan Cape, Ltd. In 1946, he founded his own publishing house, publishing a diverse range of both obscure and well-known authors. He was also a successful author, perhaps best known for his widely-admired biography of Hugh Walpole, and a respected ed...

Butler, Kathleen T. (Kathleen Theresa), 1883-1950

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Sturgis, Howard Overing, 1855-1920

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Hopkins, Gerard, 1892-1961

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Henry, James.

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Waddell, Helen, 1889-

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Tickell, Renée (Haynes) 1906-

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Stephen, Herbert, 1857-1932

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Every, George.

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Epithet: theologian poet and literary critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x00033d ...

West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

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Rebecca West was a British author and journalist. Born Cicily Fairfield, of Scots-Irish heritage, she adopted the name of the strong-willed heroine of Ibsen's play, Rosmershmolm. She trained as an actress, but concentrated on writing and contributed to various liberal journals. In addition to social commentary and literary criticism, she wrote novels; her writing was distinguished by passion, intelligence, and style. Her personal life included a decade-long affair with H.G. Wells, affairs with C...

Pelham Edgar.

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Beerbohm, Sir Max, 1872-1956.

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Edel, Leon, 1907-1997

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Author, editor and educator. From the description of Papers of Leon Edel, 1855-1972. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53436427 Author. From the description of Reminiscences of Leon Edel : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737832 ...

Lionel Trilling

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Ward, R. H. (Richard Heron), 1910-

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Epithet: playwright British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0001a7 ...

Sitwell, Sir Osbert, bart., 1892-

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Lubbock, Percy, 1879-1965

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Percy Lubbock (1879-1965) was a British critic and biographer, whose works include Earlham (1922), an account of his own Norfolk childhood holidays; Roman Pictures (1923), which describes an English tourist's responses to Rome; Shades of Eton (1923), recollections of his schooldays; and Portrait of Edith Wharton (1947). He edited a selection of H. James's letters (1920); also a selection from A. C. Benson's diary (1926). His The Craft of Fiction (1921) analyses the techniques of Tolstoy, Flauber...

Thomas Stearns Eliot

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Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964

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Morton Dauwen Zabel (1901-1964), author, critic, editor and scholar of nineteenth-century English and European literature. Received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1933. Zabel served as associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse from 1928-1936 and full editor 1936-1937. His professional association with the University of Chicago began in 1947 when he was appointed to the English Department and actively continued until his death in 1964. From the description of Morton D...

Leon Edel

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James, Alice Howe Gibbens

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Brien, Donald G.

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Nowell-Smith, Simon Harcourt, 1909-

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Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, 1866-

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Daughters of Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), editor, literary scholar, and professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sara edited a published edition of her father's letters. From the description of Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive), 1880-1946 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612364861 From the guide to the Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive), 1880-1946 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard Coll...

Professor Leon Edel

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Swan, Michael.

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Charles Williams.

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Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945

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French poet and philosopher. From the description of Paul Valéry petition, circa 1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981247 Paul Valéry, French poet, essayist and critic. From the description of Paul Valéry collection, 1896-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78236502 From the description of Paul Valéry collection, 1896-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702153343 Valéry was a French poet. From the guide to the Papers conce...

Lord, Nancy

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British Broadcasting Company

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The two part documentary ‘No Plan, No Peace: The inside story of Iraq’s descent into chaos’ was produced by BBC Current Affairs and broadcast on the 28th and 29th October 2007. From the guide to the BBC Documentary: ‘No Plan, No Peace’ Collection, 2007, (Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford) In December 1981, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of 13 controversial programmes by its Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland, under the title Priestland's...

Macaulay, Rose, 1887-1958

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Laurence, Dan H.

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Epithet: authority on G B Shaw British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0000a3 ...

Bosanquet, Theodora

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Theodora Bosanquet was secretary of the International Federation of University Women in the 1920's and 30's. She had served as secretary to the writer Henry James. From the description of Diaries, 1924-1936 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007102 Epithet: MBE British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000075 Theodora Bosanquet (1887?-1961) became secretary to Henry Ja...

Powell, Helena.

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Percy Lubbock.

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Bosanquet family.

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The Founder's Memorial Lecture, Girton College

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James, Henry, 1843-1916

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James was an American novelist, short story writer, critic and dramatist. From the description of Henry James transcripts of letters to others, 1873-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612731792 From the guide to the Henry James transcripts of letters to others, 1873-1915., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James was born in New York, NY, in 1843. During his lifetime, he was a literary and art critic (writing for Natio...

Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953

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Aldous Huxley was a British novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary and social critic, and poet. From the guide to the Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 1915-1973, 1915-1963, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Winston Churchill's private secretary. From the description of Letter, [19--] Aug. 1 : to Mrs. Earle. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 24758114 ...

Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957

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Sayers was a British novelist, translator and apologist for the Christian faith. From the description of Dorothy L. Sayers letters and poems, 1913-1952. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 271111369 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x00016b Novelist and playwright. From the description of Letters, to Maurice Browne, 1936-1947. (University of Michigan). Wor...

George Every.

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Morley College

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Roberts, R. Ellis (Richard Ellis), 1879-1953

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Richard Ellis Roberts (1879-1953) was a journalist. From the guide to the Papers of Richard Ellis Roberts, 1917-39, n.d., (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...

James, Margaret

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Blunden, Edmund, 1896-

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Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1947

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Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943

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Laurence Binyon was an English writer. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers. From the description of Laurence Binyon fonds. [1941]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660202804 Binyon was born Aug. 10, 1869 in Lancaster, England; British Museum official for 40 years, as well as art historian, critic, translator, playwright, and poet; author of numerous works on art, including Painting in the Fa...

Ritchie, Anne Isabella (Thackeray) lady, 1838-1919

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Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928

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Edmund Gosse, a well known man of letters, librarian to the House of Lords (1904-1914), and author of the autobiography, Father and Son (1907), was a pioneering translator of Ibsen and author of numerous volumes of poetry, criticism and biography. Charles Edmund Merrill was an active member of the Grolier Club from 1910 until his death in 1942. From the description of Letters : to Charles E. Merrill, 1910-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577035 English poet and man of...

Williams, Charles, 1886-1945

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English author. From the description of The other side of the way : place not specified : autograph manuscript of the poem signed, 1931 May 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270589839 ...

Theodora Bosanquet

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Mrs William James

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Tomlinson, Henry Major, 1873-

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Evan Charteris.

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De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956

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Walter De la Mare (1873-1956) was a British poet, novelist, short story writer, critic, essayist, anthologist, dramatist, and a prolific writer of children's poetry and fiction. From the description of Papers of Walter De la Mare, 1923-1956. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122584933 Mégroz was the early biographer of de la Mare. From the description of Letter, c. 1923, to R.L. Mégroz. (Unknown). WorldCat record...

Barker, Lois F.

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James, Dorothea.

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