A. W. RUSSELL AND RUTH PITTER CORRESPONDENCE. Vol. III (ff. 183). Correspondence of A. W. Russell; 1967-1969, n.d. The names of the writers and recipients are given in the index to the present catalogue.includes:ff. 1-11 John Leslie Thomas Arlott, wr... 1967-1969

Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-2001

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Elizabeth Joan Jennings was born on July 18, 1926, in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, to Henry Cecil Jennings, a medical officer of health, and Helen Mary Turner. Raised as a Roman Catholic, she attended Rye St. Antony School and later Oxford High School. When Jennings was thirteen years old she discovered poetry, first struck by Chesterton's The Battle of Lepanto. She found early encouragement in teachers and an uncle, himself a poet. Jennings studied English at St. Anne's College, Oxford from 1...

Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980

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University teacher and theatre producer. Epithet: writer and translator of Chaucer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x00011f ...

Reeves, James, active 1966-1969, writer alias John Morris

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Epithet: writer alias John Morris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00023b ...

Gascoyne-Cecil, Edward Christian David, Lord, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0002df ...

Betjeman, John, 1906-1984

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John Betjeman was a poet, journalist, free-lance writer, architectural commentator, broadcaster, and television personality who was popular in England in the 1960s and 1970s and was active in the campaigning for the preservation of churches, buildings and landscape. He was knighted in 1969 and became poet laureate in 1972. During his time at Oxford University, Betjeman's active social life included writers such as Evelyn Waugh, Bryan Guiness, Graham Greene, and W.H. Auden. He married Penelope Ch...

Gittings, Robert.

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000225 ...

Lewis, Naomi, active 1967-1969, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000235 ...

Gunn, Thom

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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. His first book of poems, "Fighting Terms," was published in 1954, and Gunn was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University in the same year. From 1958 to 1966 and 1973 to 1990 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He received numerous awards during his life, most notably the MacArthur Fellowship for lifetime achievement in poetry in 1993. Gunn passed away in San Francisco, California, in 2004. Fr...

Plomer, William, 1903-1973

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William Plomer was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, librettist, and songwriter. From the description of William Plomer collection of papers, 1921-1973. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122575712 From the guide to the William Plomer collection of papers, 1921-1973, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) William Plomer was born in South Africa and educated in England. After ...

Young, Andrew, active 1967-1969, Canon poet

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Epithet: Canon poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x00004b ...

Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon, active 1936-1969, American author

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x0003db ...

Pattisson, John G, active 1967-1969, publisher

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Epithet: publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00021d ...

Grieve, Mary M, active 1967-1969, of Long Marston Herefordshire

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Epithet: of Long Marston Herefordshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000229 ...

Kirkup, James Falconer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000230 ...

Marsh, Ngaio, active 1967-1969, DBE

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Epithet: DBE British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000238 ...

Fuller, Roy, 1912-1991

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Roy (Broadbent) Fuller (1912-1991), the poet, was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, educated at Blackpool High School, and later qualified as a solicitor. He joined the Woolwich Equitable Building Society in 1938 and became one of its directors in 1969. He was legal adviser to and vice-president of the Building Societies Association, and at one time a governor of the BBC. His lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry (1968-1973) were published under the titles Owls and artificers (London, 1971) and P...

Hartley, Leslie Poles, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00018b ...

Bertram Rota Ltd (booksellers : active 1935-1969)

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Tennyson, Hallam, 1920-2005, writer and broadcaster

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Epithet: writer and broadcaster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00023d ...

MacLiesh, Philippa, active 1967-1969, assistant secretary The Society of Authors

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Epithet: assistant secretary The Society of Authors British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000237 ...

Bronowski, Jacob, active 1913-1969, Dr polymath

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Epithet: Dr polymath British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000345 ...

Hassall, Joan, active 1909-1969, painter

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Epithet: painter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000054 ...

Kizer, Carolyn, active 1967-1969, poet

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000232 ...

Bruce-Lockhart, Robert Hamilton, Sir, active 1967-1969, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000218 ...

Whistler, Alan Charles Laurence, active 1957-1969, CBE, writer and engraver

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Epithet: CBE, writer and engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00023f ...

Conquest, Robert, active 1967-1969, editor

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Epithet: editor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00021c ...

John Barrington Wain

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The author John Barrington Wain, 1925-1994, was Professor of Poetry at University of Oxford, 1973-78. He was born in Stoke-on-Trent and educated at the High School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and then St John's College, Oxford, where he became Fereday Fellow, 1946-49. He was a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading, 1947-55, and on resignation became a freelance author and critic. Like contemporary figures, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, and John Braine, Wain began publishing just...

Speaight, Robert William, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00023c ...

Church, Richard, 1893-1972

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British author and poet. From the description of Letter, 1942 May 2. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853286 Richard Church was a British author and critic, known as a poet and as a writer for young people. Born in the Battersea dictrict of London, he was educated at public schools in Dulwich and at sixteen took a job with the civil service, where he remained for twenty-four years. He published a considerable amount of poetry, then began writing fiction; ...

Grenfell, Joyce, 1910-1979

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Epithet: née Phipps, actress and entertainer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000227 Joyce Grenfell. Joyce Irene Grenfell (nee Phipps) was born in London on 10 February 1910, the elder child and only daughter of Paul Phipps, an architect and a fellow of RIBA, and his wife Nora Langhorne, from Virginia, USA, who was the sister of Nancy (later Viscountess) Astor, the first woman to sit in the House of Com...

Kavanagh, Patrick Joseph Gregory, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00022f ...

Haley, William 1901-1987

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Epithet: editor of 'The Times' Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00022d ...

Blunden, Edmund Charles

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Edmund Charles Blunden (1896-1974), poet, was born in London on 1 November 1866, and educated at Christ's Hospital and Queen's College, Oxford. He served in France and Belgium with the Royal Sussex Regiment, 1916-1919. Blunden was Professor of English Literature at Tokyo University, 1924-1927, and a Fellow and tutor in English literature at Merton College, Oxford, 1931-1943. He was part of the U.K. Liaison Mission in Tokyo, 1948-1950, and became Emeritus Professor at the University of Hong Kong ...