Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books 1935-1965

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 ...

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939

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Biography Letters of Ford Madox [Hueffer, aftw.] Ford (1873-1939), English author, to the literary agent who handled his novels, James B. Pinker. Some of the letters are in Ford's handwriting, but many are written or typewritten by a secretary and signed by Ford. Most of the letters for 1901-1915 are undated. In the early part of the correspondence there are a few references to Conrad. In general the correspondence relates almost entirely to ...

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983

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Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father, Cornelius, a salesman who was largely absent had a bad relationship with Tennessee, the second of his three children. Consequently, Tennessee was raised predominantly by his mother, Edwina, and maternal grandparents. His often strained and disturbed family life became the fodder for many of his plays. After moving to New Orleans in his late 20s, and adopting the name Tenn...

Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967

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Poet and writer Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Matfield in Kent. His mother, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, was from a prominent family of sculptors and artists, while his father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. His father left home when he was seven and died soon after, so Siegfried and his brothers, Michael and Hamo, were raised solely by their mother. Educated at Marlborough College (1902-4), Sassoon read law at Cl...

David-Néel, Alexandra, 1868-1969

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Alexandra David-Néel was a Belgian–French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer.She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels, including Magic and Mystery in Tibet, which was published in 1929. ...

Stark, Freya, 1893-1993

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Freya Madeline Stark was born in Paris on 31 January 1893 to Robert and Flora Stark. The elder Starks--the father of British birth, the mother born on the continent--were cousins and artists. After several years of living at Chagford, Devon and in northern Italy, Robert and Flora Stark separated, and Flora, with Freya and a younger sister Vera, remained in Italy, first at Dronero, and then at Asolo, near Venice. Freya's fascination with exotic lands is said to have dated from her earliest readi...

Woolley, Leonard, 1880-1960

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Leonard Woolley was the third of eleven children of a Church of England clergyman, George Herbert Woolley, and his wife Sarah. He attended St John’s School, Leatherhead, in Surrey, and New College, University of Oxford, where he studied Classics and theology. It was the warden of New College, W.A. Spooner, who advised him to take up archaeology after graduation. In 1905 Woolley was appointed assistant to Arthur Evans, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford. Woolley’s early career took him ...

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001

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Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh was born in Englewood, New Jersey on 22 June 1906, the daughter of ambassador and politician Dwight Morrow and author and Smith College president Elizabeth Cutter Morrow. From 1924-1928 Anne studied literature at Smith College, where she graduated in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in English. In May 1929, after a brief courting period, Anne married Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974). Anne had met Lindbergh in Mexico in 1927, while her father was serving as ambas...

Meynell, Francis Meredith Wilfrid, 1891-1975

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Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell was born on May 12, 1891 in London, England to Wilfrid and Alice (Thompson) Meynell, the youngest of seven surviving children. Francis Thompson was Francis Meynell's godfather. Meynell attended Trinity College, Dublin, from 1908 until 1910 or 1911. He married three times: Hilda Saxe, 1914 (one daughter, Cynthia); Vera Mendel, 1925 (one son, Benedict); and Alix Hester Marie Kilroy, 1946 (no children). Francis Meynell was a typographer, book designer, and pub...

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889

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Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex, on July 28, 1844, as the eldest of nine children to Manley and Catherine Hopkins, née Smith. From 1863 to 1867, Hopkins studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford University, taking first-class degrees in both Classics and Greats. At Oxford, Hopkins befriended the poet Robert Bridges. In 1866, Hopkins converted to Catholicism. Upon entering the Society of Jesus in 1868, he destroyed the poetry he had written up to that point. Hopkins then stud...

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...

Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938

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James Weldon Johnson was a publisher, educator, lawyer, composer, artist, diplomat, and civil rights leader. Together with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, he wrote the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing", which came to be known as the "Negro National Anthem", as well as a large number of popular songs for the musical stage of the early twentieth century. Johnson also served as consul of the United States to Venezuela and Nicaragua. He wrote several books and served as editor of the New York Age. ...

Mannin, Ethel, 1900-1984

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The oldest of three children, Ethel Edith Mannin was born on October 11, 1900 in Clapham, a suburb of London, to Robert Mannin and Edith Gray Mannin. She was author of almost one hundred books (her goal was to publish one novel and one work of nonfiction each year). She published novels, travelogues, autobiographies, children's books, collections of short stories, books on child-rearing, and articles on pacifism and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Her journalistic career began at age seventeen, when ...

Cocteau, Jean

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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Antonin Artaud -- French poet, essayist, actor and director -- was the leading playwright of the 'Theatre of Cruelty.' From the description of Le moine de M.G. Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud [manuscript], ca. 1931 / Jean Cocteau. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 318989605 French poet, novelist, playwright, and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786

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Moses Mendelssohn was an internationally renowned philosopher of the Enlightenment while remaining an observant Jew who defended Judaism and advocated for Jewish civil rights. Moses Mendelssohn was born in 1729 in Dessau, the son of a Torah scribe, and received a traditional Talmudic education. His mother Bela Rachel Sara was descended from an illustrious line of rabbis. At age 14, Moses Mendelssohn followed his rabbi to Berlin; in Berlin, Mendelssohn encountered a group of early enlightened ...

Keats, John, 1795-1821

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John Keats was an English poet and literary critic. John Keats, English poet, was born in London, England, on 29 or 31 Oct. 1795. He died of tuberculosis in Italy on 23 Feb. 1821. In 1810, Keats was articled to a surgeon, T. Hammond, in Edmonton for five years. The contract was broken in 1814 or 1815. He then continued his study of surgery in London, entering Guy's Hospital on 2 Oct. 1815. In 1816, Keats became a dresser at Guy's and on 25 July 1816 passed his licentiate at Apothecaries' H...

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

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Born in 1899, Ernest Hemingway was the second of six children born to Grace Hall and Clarence Edmonds Hemingway. Ernest developed a love of literature and music from his mother, a trained opera singer and music teacher after her marriage, and gained a keen interest in outdoor sports--hunting, fishing, woodscraft--from his father, a doctor and avid naturalist. Divided between the family's home in Oak Park, Illinois, and their summer cottage on Lake Waldoon in Michigan, Ernest's chil...

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the for her novel Little Women (1868) and the sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May. Like her famous literary counterpart, Jo March, she was the second of four daughters. The eldest, Anna Bronson (Al...

Aubrey-Fletcher, Henry Lancelot, Sir, 1887-1969

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Major Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet KStJ CVO DSO (10 September 1887 – 30 May 1969), also known by his pen name Henry Wade, was Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire from 1954 to 1961. He was also one of the leading authors during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Aubrey-Fletcher was the only son and second child of Sir Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 5th Baronet and Emily Harriet Wade (married 18 April 1882 St Anne, Soho, London), though his father had already had another son by a...

Ernst, Morris L. (Morris Leopold), 1888-1976

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Morris Ernst (August 23, 1888 – May 21, 1976) was an American lawyer and prominent attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In public life, he defended and asserted the rights of Americans to privacy and freedom from censorship, playing a significant role in challenging and overcoming the banning of certain works of literature (including James Joyce's Ulysses and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness) and in asserting the right of media employees to organise labor unions. He als...

Gellhorn, Martha Ellis, 1908-1998

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Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. She died in 1998 in an apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind. The Martha Gellhorn Prize f...

Foley, Katharine

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Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898

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Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodson was born in England at Daresbury, Cheshire, to Charles Dodgson, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife Frances Jane Lutwidge on January 27, 1832. In 1851, Dodgson matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1855 was appointed to a mathematical lectureship in that college, of which he remained a member for the rest of his life. A lifelong interest in writing, combined with a predisposition for story telling, word play, and games, led to a unique liter...

Marshall, S.L.A. (Samuel Lyman Atwood), 1900-1977

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Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, also known as Slam, (July 18, 1900 – December 17, 1977) was a military journalist and historian. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, before leaving to work as a journalist, specialising in military affairs. In 1940, he published Blitzkrieg: Armies on Wheels, an analysis of the tactics used by the Wehrmacht, and re-entered the U.S. Army as its chief combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He officiall...

Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965

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Randall Jarrell (6 May 1914 – 14 October 1965), the noted American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist, was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Vanderbilt University where he studied under Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom, edited the student humor magazine, captained the tennis team, received a Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. After graduating from Vanderbilt, Jarrell served as a teaching instructor at Kenyon College, Gambier, ...

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Acton, Harold, 1904-1994

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Harold Acton was a British writer and scholar. His works include The Last Medici (1932), The Bourbons of Naples, 1734-1825 (1956), and two memoirs, Memoirs of an Aesthete (1948) and More Memoirs of an Aesthete (1970). Acton lived in China from 1933 to 1939, during which time he supported himself by teaching English Literature and collaborated with others to translate various Chinese literary works. His translations include Glue and Lacquer: Four Cautionary Tales (1941) and ...

Masefield, John, 1878-1967

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The English poet, playwright and novelist John Masefield was born in 1878 in Ledbury. After running away to sea early (when he was thirteen) he settled in London from 1897 and devoted himself to writing. Later he moved to Oxford which was where he lived when most of the following collection was produced. Masefield became Poet Laureate in 1930 and was awarded the Order of Merit in 1935. Among his more notable works are some early reflections of his maritime experiences in Salt Water Ba...

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

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...

Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974

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Poet and suffragist Sara Bard Field lived in Portland in the early part of the twentieth century. Her poetry, her support of women’s suffrage, and her controversial relationship with Charles Erskine Scott Wood, a Portland cultural icon, made an indelible imprint on the history of Oregon. Field was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 1, 1882, to strict Baptist parents. The family moved to Detroit, where, at the age of eighteen, she married the much older Baptist minister Albert Erghott. T...

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, and critic. In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was not quite fourteen at the time, and began seriously seeking a means of supporting "his family." In the spring of 1835, the family moved back to Richmond where Poe took a position with the Southern Literary Messenger . Poe used the opportunity to publish several of his poems and short tales in the paper, but he also began developing his reputation as a pugnacious critic by contr...

Ross, Lillian, 1918-2017

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Lillian Ross (1918-2017) was an American journalist and author, born Lillian Rosovsky in Syracuse, New York. She was raised partially in Syracuse and partially in Brooklyn. She was a staff writer for The New Yorker starting in 1945 during World War II and working nearly up to her death. She wrote articles with a novelistic reporting style, which would later be called “new journalism” or “literary journalism,” including early stories about Ernest Hemingway and John Huston’s filming of The Red Bad...

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...

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x00005f Irish writer, poet, and playwright. From the description of Collection, 1851-1957 (bulk 1877-1957). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122625016 Irish poet, dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

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Russian novelist. From the description of Graf Leo Tolstoy miscellaneous papers, 1853-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868149 Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1828-1910), Russian novelist From the guide to the Lev Tolstoi papers, 1909-1984, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Russian novelist, philosopher and mystic. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1904 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id:...

Reves, Emery, 1904-1981

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Myers, L. H. (Leopold Hamilton), 1881-1944

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Green, Henry, 1905-1974

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Epithet: of Rolleston British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000982.0x000139 Epithet: of Add MS 42016 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000982.0x000138 ...

Solicitor

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Mackinder, Halford John, 1861-1947

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Sir Halford John Mackinder was born on the 15 February 1861 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. He was educated at Gainsborough Grammar School; Epsom College, and Christ Church, Oxford. After leaving Oxford he read for the bar at the Inner Temple in London and qualified as a barrister in 1886. In 1885 Mackinder became a lecturer for the Oxford university extension movement - formed to give educational opportunities to people unable to attend a university - and he lec...

Marshall, Arthur Calder

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Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973

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Nancy Freeman-Mitford was a British novelist and biographer. She is best known for her series of novels about upper-class life in England and France including THE PURSUIT OF LOVE (1945), and DON'T TELL ALFRED (1960). She also wrote four well-received, well-researched popular biographies of Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, and Frederick the Great. Mitford managed the bookshop on Curzzon Street in London, during World War II, and moved to Paris in 1945 where she died. From the...

Mackail, Denis

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Forbes, R. J. ; Dijksterhuis, E. J.

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Liddell Hart, B. H.

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Barman, Christian Augustus, 1898-1980

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Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922

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Epithet: President of Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x000143 Anglo-Irish author and political leader. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : [n.p.], to Frank Cowper, 1909 Mar. 2 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870521 ...

Camoens

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Dante

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Green, Peter

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Epithet: of Add MS 40267 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x000289 ...

Mortimer, Penelope, 1918-1999

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Epithet: wife of J Mortimer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000499.0x00024a English author; full name: Penelope Ruth Mortimer; d. 1999. From the description of Penelope Mortimer collection, 1900-1996. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968722 ...

Murray, D. Stark (David Stark), 1900-....

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Russell, Betrand

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Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960

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Novelist. Works by Vicki Baum include GRAND HOTEL, SECRET SENTENCE, HELENE, MEN NEVER KNOW, THE SHIP AND THE SHORE, MARION ALIVE, THE WEEPING WOOD, DANGER FROM DEER, and HEADLESS ANGEL. From the description of Vicki Baum papers, 1929-1953. (University at Albany). WorldCat record id: 84085248 Born (1888) and raised in Vienna, Vicki Baum first published stories as a teenager but then focused on musical studies at the Vienna Conservatory, where she made her profess...

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

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H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells (b. September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England-d. August 13, 1946, London, England), best remembered for imaginative novels such as The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, prototypes for modern science fiction, was a prolific writer and one of the most versatile in the history of English letters. He produced an average of nearly three books a year for more than fifty years, in addition to hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. His works ranged from f...

Jones, Peter d'A.

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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922

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French author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Fernand Gregh, [n.d.]"Jeudi." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270615671 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Georges [de Lauris], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270851761 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [n.p.], to [Robert de Montesquiou], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270851766 Marcel Proust is generally regarded as one ...

Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881

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Benjamin Disraeli was a prominent British statesman and novelist who served in many positions including Prime Minister of Great Britain. From the description of Letters, 1799-1877. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 276297717 English Prime Minister. From the description of Letter signed : "10 Downing Street, Whitehall, ", to Vice Admiral Erasmus Ommanney, 1877 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270537555 Benjamin Disraeli (1804-18...

Lorimer, E.O. (Emily Overend)

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Rackham, Bernard, 1876-1964

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English expert on ceramics. From the description of Typed letter signed : London, to John Platt, 1921 Feb. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874998 ...

Sprott, W. J. H. (Walter John Herbert), 1897-1971

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Mander, John

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Steinberg, S.H. (Sigfrid Henry), 1899-1969

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Sinclair, Andrew

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Euphan and Klaxon

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Jacobson, Dan (Daniel)

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Armstrong, H. C.

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Cecil, Henry, 1943-2013

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Pallottino, M.

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Bradbury, M.S.

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Professor Malcolm Bradbury was Professor of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, 1970-1994. He led the MA course in Creative Writing between 1992 and 1995. From the guide to the Archives of Modern Writing and Literary Translation: MA Creative Writing Course, 1959-1995 (predominantly 1984-1995), (Repository Unknown) ...

Aldiss, Brian

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Brian Aldiss was born on August 18 1925 in Dereham, Norfolk, and educated at Framlingham College, Suffolk, and West Bickland School, Devon. After war service in the Royal Corps of Signals he entered the bookselling trade, working at Sanders & Co. in Oxford. His first work as a writer was The Brightfount Diaries, a fictionalised diary of a bookseller first published as a column in The Bookseller during 1954 and 1955 and published as one volume by Faber & Faber in 1955. The following year ...

Fisher, G. D.

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Vaizey, John, 1929-1984

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British economist, educator, and novelist. From the description of John Vaizey papers, 1926-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872273 Biographical Note 1929, Oct. 1 Born, Greenwich, London, England 1951 M.A., Queens' College, Cambridge ...

Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...

Hutchinson, J.

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Epithet: Reverend; at Amiens British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001127.0x0000a9 ...

Byrom, James

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Lindsay, Martin

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Goodchild, Claude H.

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Gundrey, Elizabeth.

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Belloc, H.

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Knight, Margaret

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Wooster, N.

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Hill, Ralph (ed.)

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Leff, Gordon

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Putnam, J. L.

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Tabouis, Genevieve

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Norbury, James

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Graham, Eleanor

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Sargant, William

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Evans, A. J.

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More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535

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Epithet: of Seal CLXVIII British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000069 Epithet: MD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000059 English saint, lord chancellor and author. From the description of Autograph signature on a lease : London, [1523] June 1, XV year of the reign of Henry VIII. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Brereton, Geoffrey.

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Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980

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Charles Percy Snow was an English scientist, author, and statesman. Born in to a poor family, he chose to study science because financial aid was available for that discipline. After taking a Ph.D. in Physics from Oxford, he began publishing novels; despite early success, he entered government service, and had a long and distinguished career. Throughout his life, he balanced his interests in science, writing, and politics, making genuine contributions in all three arenas. As an author, he wrote ...

Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959

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Born Raymond Thornton Chandler in Chicago on July 23, 1888; studied at Dulwich College, London, and privately in France and Germany; began career as contributor of verse, essays, book reviews and special articles to daily and weekly papers in London, 1909; served with Canadian Expeditionary Force and R.A.F. during WWI; afterwards, returned to US to become an officer in various independent oil corporations; began writing fiction contributions to magazines in 1933; published his first novel, The b...

Carnell, John

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Allen, W. E. D.

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Piggott, Stuart.

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Uvarov, E. B. (Eugene Boris), 1910-

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Mottram, V. H.

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De Beer, G. R.

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Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944

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French author. From the description of Typed contract : New York, between Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Reynal and Hitchcock, 1942 Nov. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875005 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Elizabeth Reynal, [n.d., but before 1942]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872208 From the description of Pencil sketches (2) of "the little Prince", [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872209 From the descripti...

Corbett, P. E.

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Lorant, Stefan, 1901-1997

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Stefan Lorant is widely acknowledged as a founder of modern pictorial journalism. After growing up amid his family's studio photography business in Budapest, he pursued a career in silent-filmmaking in Vienna and Berlin, then went on to both found and edit picture magazines in Germany, Hungary, and England. In 1940 he came to America and began writing and producing photographically-illustrated history books. From the description of Stefan Lorant collection, ca. 1869-1993 (bulk 1920-1...

Lockley, R. M.

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Foley, Donald L.

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Collinson, W. W. ; Connell, H.

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Bell, Clive, flutist

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Brett, Lionel, Sir, 1911-

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Lambert, J. W. (Jack Walter), 1917-1986

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Epithet: associate editor, 'The Sunday Times' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x0002ef Assistant Editor, The Sunday Times (London). From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : London, 18 February 1961, to Joseph Chouinard, 1961 Feb. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270918562 ...

Stendhal, 1783-1842

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Stendhal (b. Marie-Henri Beyle, January 23, 1783, Grenoble, France–d. March 23, 1842, Paris, France) was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism....

Hall, Donald (ed.)

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Cox, Anthony, CBE

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Wyndham, John

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Gallie, W. B., 1912-1998

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Goodwin, Michael (ed.)

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Aristotle

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Lambert, Constant

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English composer, conductor, and writer on music. From the description of Autograph postcards and postal cards signed (9), and Valentine cards signed (2), dated : [London, Marseille, Toulon and Paris, 1919-1931] and [n.p., n.d.], to Nina Hamnett, 1919-1931, 1929 Dec. 21 and 1930 Apr. 20 andn.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270667102 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London June 3 1929], to Mme [Louise] Alvar, 1929 June 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

Halliday, F.E. (Frank Ernest), 1903-

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Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924

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English writer, noted for children's stories. From the description of Papers of Frances Hodgson Burnett [manuscript], 1889-1914. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647835018 English writer who resided in the United States, noted children's author. From the description of Letter [manuscript], Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent, to Richard Watson Gilder, 1906 September 6. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647836929 From the description of...

Kellett, E.E.

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Walker, Kenneth; Fletcher, Peter

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Williams, Norman Lloyd

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Kitto, H. D. F., 1964

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Bennett, Arnold

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Enoch Arnold Bennett was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent on 27 May 1867. His infancy was spent in poverty, which gave way to prosperity as his father succeeded as a solicitor. From this background he became a novelist. His enduring fame is as a chronicler of the Potteries towns, the setting and inspiration of some of his most famous and enduring literary work and the place where he grew up. Bennett did not pursue a career as a writer until after leaving his father's practice and movi...

Schwarz, Oswald

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Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122

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Angell, Norman; Buxton, Dorothy F.

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Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962

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Richard Aldington, British poet, novelist and essayist. From the description of Richard Aldington collection, 1918-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81650599 From the description of Richard Aldington collection, 1918-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148171 Richard Aldington was born in Hampshire in 1882. Educated at Dover College and London University he founded the "Egotist journal "in 1913. He joined the British Army and served on the Western Front in 19...

Observer, The

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Heyer, Georgette, 1902-1974

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Georgette Heyer was a popular English author credited with originating the historical romance novel. Her meticulously researched period romances, generally set in the Regency, feature simple plots, well-drawn characters, witty dialogue, and a wealth of historical detail. She also wrote mysteries. From the description of Georgette Heyer letter to Rachel Ferguson, 1938 Jan. 23. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53917420 Author. From the...

Hull, Richard

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Shaw, Bernard

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Roberts, D. (ed.)

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Ashbrook, H.

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Johnson, M. L. ; Abercrombie, Michael (eds.)

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Chesterton, G.K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936

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English literary critic and author. From the description of Epitaph, [not after 1936]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 31402388 Author and journalist. From the description of Poem of G. K. Chesterton, 1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455163 Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English poet, journalist, author, and critic. His literary criticism included works about Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, and George Berna...

Massingham, H. J. ; Massingham, Hugh

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Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986

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Alan Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre both for the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors....

Pinner, Erna; Shorten, Monica

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Wren, P. C.

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Hamilton, Patrick, 1958-

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Balchin, Nigel, 1908-1970

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Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-1981

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Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933

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Novelist. From the description of Letters, 1900-1932. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 708580518 From the description of Papers, 1925-1933. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 708580524 John Galsworthy was an English dramatist and novelist. Educated as a barrister at Harrow and New College, Oxford, he instead decided to travel, attending to his family's shipping business abroad, and then began writing. His first book, From the Four Winds, was a collec...

Millin, Sarah Gertrude Liebson, 1889-1968

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Sarah Gertrude Millin was perhaps the preeminent South African writer of her generation. Her novels occasionally reached a wider audience in the United States or London; the overt racism that pervades most of her work has marginalized her place in South African literary history. From the description of Sarah Millin letter to Ronald Storrs, 1933 Feb. 13. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52434130 Epithet: author British Library Archive...

Beerbohm, Max Rothenstein, J. Introduction

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Scott, John S.

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Harris, Rex; Rust, Brian

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Braine, John

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Author John Braine was born in Yorkshire; he was raised in a secure, middle-class, Catholic family. He worked a variety of jobs before becoming a librarian, but quit to pursue a writing career after some success publishing articles. His first novel, Room at the Top, was remarkably popular and established Braine as one of Britain's Angry Young Men, so called because of the rebellious ethic they promoted. His work was noted for its directness and unflinching detail. Subsequent novels and screenpla...

Wesker, Arnold, 1932-....

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Arnold Wesker, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the playwright and director, a past President of the International Playwrights' Committee, was born on 24 May 1932 in Stepney, London, to Jewish parents. For fuller details of his life and achievements see Who's who . From the guide to the Autograph typescript and manuscript drafts of Arnold Wesker's contribution to a composite play entitled, Consequences, with related correspondence between him and Simon Reade, 1990-1991, (Le...

Graves, Robert

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Epithet: line-engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x00010f Epithet: of Stowe MS 748 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x0003af Epithet: late Adj., 1st Somerset Militia Regt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x0003ae ...

Allingham, Margery

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Ambler, Eric, 1909-1998

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English novelist and screenwriter; d. 1998; with Charles Rodda wrote under pseudonym Eliot Reed. From the description of Eric Ambler collection, 1940-1998. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70976500 ...

Austin, Dennis

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Burland, C. A. (Cottie Arthur), 1905-1983

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Guttmacher, Alan F. (Alan Frank), 1898-1974

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Alan Frank Guttmacher, (1898-1974), was President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1962 to 1974. His research focused on women's reproductive health issues including family planning, birth control, legalized abortion, sterility, fertility, multiple birth pregnancies, and global overpopulation. Guttmacher was an obstetrician, gynecologist, and family planning advocate in Baltimore, Md. before becoming Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New Yor...

Levy, Louis

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Gardiner, Patrick L., 1922-

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George, Dorothy

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Citrine, Sir. Walter

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Hays, Peter

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Lambert, R. S.

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Farrer, Katharine

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

Hives, Frank; Lumley, Gascoine

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Lane, Margaret

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Collins, Wilkie

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Sept. 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He began writing while a student at Princeton University. He met his wife, Zelda, while serving in the US Army stationed in Alabama. His novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and he became an instant success. He published he Great Gatsby in 1925. Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940 of a heart attack at age 44 while living in Los Angeles and working for the film industry....

Stamp, L. Dudley

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Woolrich, Cornell, 1903-1968

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American author and student at Columbia University in 1925. He frequently used a pen name, William Irish. From the description of Manuscripts, 1958-1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122377036 Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was born on December 14, 1903 in New York City to Genero and Claire (neé Attalic) Hopley-Woolrich. In 1907 the family moved to Mexico and Genero and Claire divorced soon after. Co...

Hampshire, Stuart, 1914-2004

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Spark, Muriel

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x0001c5 ...

Treadgold, Mary

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Bond, Michael.

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O'Hara, John

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Christensen, Erwin O.

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Macmillan, W. M.

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Hill, Ralph, 1900-1950

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Epithet: Captain; 45th Regt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000568.0x000369 ...

Moore, W. E.

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Young, Miriam, 1913-

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Aesop

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Fuchs, Vivian; Hillary, Edmund

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Bureau of Current Affairs

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Moore, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 43000 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x0002bc John Moore was born in Massachusetts and moved to Talladega, Alabama. Although he was educated as a doctor, he entered the mercantile business in Alabama. He lost all his property in 1855 and moved to Texas. From the guide to the John Moore papers, 1837-1866, (Manuscripts and Archives) Epithet: Alderman of Queenhithe a...

Flecker, James Elroy, 1884-1915

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Southern, Terry

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Terry Southern (May 1, 1924-October 29, 1995) was an American author, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer, noted for his satirical style. From the guide to the Terry Southern papers, 1924-1995, 1955-1995, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) ...

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, and philosopher. From the description of Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 36 items, 1792-1832 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122919490 From the guide to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 37 items, 1792-1832, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: poet and philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscript...

Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948

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English essayist, literary historian, editor. From the description of Holbrook Jackson papers, 1930-1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 496102603 Jackson was born on Dec. 31, 1874 in Liverpool, England; although he never attended college, he was a voracious reader who began publishing articles at age 16 while working as a clerk; he co-edited the New age in 1907, and edited T.P.'s magazine, which he later bought out in order to edit his ow...

Kimble, George; Bush, Raymond

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Chesser, Eustace, 1902-

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Doyle, Lynn, 1873-1961

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Ashton, Helen

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Storry, Richard, 1913-1982

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Jowitt, Robert Lionel Palgrave, 1899-

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Jefferies, Richard

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Epithet: naturalist and novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x00026b ...

Moholy, Lucia

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Manchester Guardian

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Haggard, William

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William Wade Haggard, WWU President 1939-59. From the description of William Wade Haggard collection of Lincolniana, [ca. 1950]-1976. (Western Washington University). WorldCat record id: 52781144 ...

Price, John, 1933-

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Epithet: of Add MS 45045 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x0003bd Epithet: Rector of Water Stratford, county Buckinghamshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x0003c4 Epithet: of Add MS 38143 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x0003b...

Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 1892-1977

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Writer, columnist. From the description of Reminiscences of Edgar Ansel Mowrer : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741672 Journalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer (died 1977) and author Lilian Thomson (1889-1990) were married in 1916; both wrote and lectured on politics and world affairs. From the description of Edgar Ansel Mowrer and Lilian T. Mowrer papers, 1898-1978 (bulk 1933-1978). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7...

von Rintelen, Captain

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Durrell, Gerald, 1925-1995

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Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (born 7 January 1925, Jamshedpur, India-died 30 January 1995, Saint Helier, Jersey), British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. His memoirs of his family's years living in Greece were adapted into the television series The Durrells, and he wrote a number of books about his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the ...

Anstey, F., 1856-1934

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Guthrie was an English humorous writer. Turner was an English writer. From the description of Letters to Martin John Turner, 1921-1933. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78933036 From the guide to the Letters to Martin John Turner, 1921-1933., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Epithet: writer; alias 'F Anstey' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x00...

Duncan, F. Martin

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Grice, Frederick

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Seton, Graham, 1890-1946

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Vernon, M. D.

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Kitzinger, Ernst; Senior, Elizabeth

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Lancaster, Osbert, 1908-1986

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Baulin, Jacques

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Berg, Leila

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Created by Leila Berg during the course of her career as a writer. From the guide to the Leila Berg Collection, c 1920s-2011, (Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books) ...

Childe, Gordon

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Seymour, Beatrice Kean

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Winter, Carl.

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Epithet: Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000226 ...

Collie, George E.

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Steele, Alan (ed.)

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Daniell, David Scott

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Tchehov, Anton Garnett, Constance (translat.)

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Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883

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Ivan Turgenev, playwright. From the description of A month in the country : a comedy : typescript, 1988, 14 July. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122364035 Russian author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bade, to an unidentified recipient, 1868 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573545 Russian writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Madame Bohomoletz, [n.d.]. (Unknown). Worl...

Gary, Romain

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Howard, Michael

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Epithet: director The Renaissance Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000209.0x000201 ...

Hudson, W. H. ; Curle, Richard

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Sallust

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Heaton, Peter, 1952-

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Rhodes, F. H. T.

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West, Keith

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Ferrars, Elizabeth, 1907-1995

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Tyrrell, George, 1861-1909

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Epithet: modernist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x000352 Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x000351 ...

Kantor, Mackinlay

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Burnham, James

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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827

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Composer. From the description of Ludwig van Beethoven autograph letter to Count Franz von Brunswick, [1813]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 242622425 From the description of Ludwig van Beethoven autograph letter to Josef Blöchlinger, [1819 Aug.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 242622372 From the description of Ludwig van Beethoven autograph letter to the Chevalier Josef de Varena, 1812 July 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 242622275 From the description...

Chadwick, Paxton; Gorvett, Jean

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Rathbone, Eleanor F.

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Lockhart, Sir Robert Bruce

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Muspratt, Eric, 1899-1949

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Angell, Norman, 1874-1967

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British political scientist. From the description of Letter : New York, N.Y., to [Georges] Schreiber, [ca. 1935]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122597878 Author, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Sir Norman Angell : oral history, 1951. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309722800 Writer, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate. ...

Swift, Jonathan

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Browne, Douglas G. ; Tullett, E. V.

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Storr, Anthony

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x000229 ...

Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...

Mallarme, Stephane

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Arrian

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Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990

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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of Marquis Childs, 1939-1978. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233110775 Journalist, author. From the description of Reminiscences of Marquis W. Childs : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309729711 From the description of Reminiscences of Marquis W. Childs : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldC...

Richard, Paul

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Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592

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Nilson, Bee

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Burnet, F. M.

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Mitchell, Joseph

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Epithet: poet and dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0003b0 Joseph Mitchell, 1684-1738, was the son of a Scottish stonemason. Educated in Scotland, he settled in London under the patronage of Sir Robert Walpole. He was the author of dramas, lyrics and occasional verse, but was frequently engaged in disputes with other literary figures of the time, including Cibber and Thomson From th...

Lucretius

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Epithet: of MS Facsimile 188 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000705.0x000114 ...

Committee on College Reading

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Gower, John

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Epithet: of Stowe MS 950 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x000095 Epithet: of Add MS 32900 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x000093 Epithet: of Add MS 38181 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x...

Green, F. L. (Frederick Lawrence), 1902-1953

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Frederick Lawrence Green was an Anglo-Irish novelist of Irish descent who lived in Belfast for the majority of his writing career. Born in Portsmouth, England on April 6, 1902, Green continued to live in England until 1933 when he and his wife, Margaret, moved to Belfast. Green was the author of fourteen published novels: Julius Penton (1934), On the Night of the Fire (1939), The Sound of Winter (1940), Give Us the World (1941), Music in the Park (1942), A Song for the Angels (1943), On the E...

Garstin, Crosbie, 1887-1930

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Novelist and poet best known for "The Penhales trilogy." From the description of Crosbie Garstin letter and poem to Glen Walton Blodgett [manuscript], 1929 June 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 436870216 ...

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

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Brecht was a German dramatist and poet. Karl Korsch was a Marxist theoretician. From the description of Correspondence with Karl Korsch, 1934-ca.1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122556373 From the guide to the Bertolt Brecht correspondence with Karl Korsch, ca. 1934-1954., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reyersbach was a pediatrician with special training in endocrinology and rheumatic diseases; she came to the U.S. in ...

Kastner, Erich

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Ubbelohde, A. R.

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Hilton, James

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Epithet: FSA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x0001ca Epithet: of Add MS 37504 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x00036a ...

Cadell, Elizabeth

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Ferguson, John, 1939-

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Epithet: cabinet-maker, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x000397 Epithet: of Add MS 44461 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x00039b Epithet: Hospital Master at Montrose British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x000398 ...

Llewellyn, Richard Richard D.

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Richmond, W. Kenneth (William Kenneth), 1910-1990

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Loewenstein, Prince L. ; Gerhardi, W.

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Moroney, M. J

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Parkes, James

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Belfrage, Cedric

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Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956

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Alan Alexander Milne (b. January 18, 1882, London, England-d. January 31, 1956, Hartfield, England) was born to John Vine Milne, the headmaster of Henley House School, and Sarah Maria Heginbotham Milne. Known best for his children’s stories, Milne was also a prolific essayist, playwright, and mystery writer. As a child, Milne attended his father’s school, where H. G. Wells was one of his instructors. Beginning at age eleven, Milne attended Westminster School and later en...

Trollope, Anthony

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0000ad Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x000348 ...

Hilyer, C. Isabel

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Keates, J. S.

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Archer, Peter (ed.)

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Manwaring, G. E. ; Dobree, Bonamy

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de Bergh, W. G.

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Summerson, John, 1904-1992

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Epithet: Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0003c9 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F236 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x000248 ...

Spencer, T. J. B.

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Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Estes Kefauver : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419842 Estes Kefauver was a long-time senator from Tennessee and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for president. From the description of Personal papers, 1934-1939 (University of Tennessee). WorldCat record id: 44918282 Carey Estes Kefauver (b. July 26, 1903, Monroe Count...

Davies, Nina M. (Nina Macpherson), 1881-1965

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Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920

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Olive Schreiner was a white South African writer. From the description of Olive Schreiner letters, 1888 and undated. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 36004190 From the description of Olive Schreiner letter to Dear Marg, [1897 Feb. 12]. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 70237171 ...

Gurney, O.R. (Oliver Robert), 1911-2001

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Sigal, Clancy.

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Evans, B. Ifor (Benjamin Ifor), 1899-1982

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Epithet: Principal of Queen Mary College London University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00001c Evans of Hungershall. Literary scholar and college administrator. Epithet: Principal University College of Wales Aberystwyth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0001b8 ...

Cooper, Lettice Ulpha, 1897-

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le Carre, John

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Apuleius, Lucius Graves, Robert tr

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Hawkins, Desmond, 1908-....

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Mitford, Nancy (ed.)

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Neal, Ernest

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Nowell-Smith, P.H.

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Beloff, Nora.

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Nora Beloff was born on 24 January 1919 into a family of Russian Jews who settled in London shortly before the first world war. Her father started an export business in the City of London trading in chemicals and sundry products. Beloff read history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She joined the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office (1941-1944) and was then sent to the British Embassy in Paris, (1944-1945). She then worked as a reporter for the Reuters News Agency in Paris (1945...

Henry, O., 1862-1910

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O. Henry was born as William Sydney Porter on September 11, 1862 in Greensboro, NC. He worked as a pharmacist in Greensboro and moved to Texas for his health in 1882 where he became a ranch hand. Porter relocated to Austin, TX and worked as a pharmacists, served as draftsman at the Texas General Land Office, a teller at First National Bank of Austin, and started a humorous weekly magazine, The Rolling Stone. He also wrote for the Houston Post. In 1898 Porter was found guilty of embezzlement from...

Stoker, Fred

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Lucie-Smith, Edward (ed.)

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Bartimeus

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Powell, Anthony

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

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William Morris' Kelmscott Press published The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now newly imprinted [edited by F. S. Ellis; ornamented with pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper] in 1896. From the guide to the Proofs and drawings for, The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now newly imprinted, 1892-1896., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) William Morris' Kelmscott Press published The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now ne...

Harland, Elizabeth M.

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Mozart, ...

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Bryant, Arthur

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Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x000339 ...

Johnson, S. C. (compiler and drawer)

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De Vries, Peter

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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

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Waln, Nora.

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Nora Waln was a 20th century Quaker author and journalist who wrote about Nazi Germany and China. From the description of Nora Waln Literary Papers, 1796-1939. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 213813867 From the description of Nora Waln Literary Papers, 1939-1964. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 420344336 ...

Harrington, Michael, 1972-

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Elkin, Winifred

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George, G. J. (Gilbert Jasper)

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Gunther, John

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Steinbeck, John

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From the guide to the John Steinbeck Papers, circa 1960-1961, circa 1960-1961, (Literature and Rare Books) ...

Gide, Andre

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Quentin, Patrick

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Potter, Simeon

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Davidson, H. R. Ellis (Hilda Roderick Ellis), 1914-2006

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Cohen, John, 1911-....

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Photographer John Cohen was a film assistant to Robert Frank. He was also a member of the music group New Lost City Ramblers, a collector of folk music, and later Professor of Visual Arts at the State University of New York, Purchase. From the description of Pull my daisy [graphic] : promotional photographs and stills from the motion picture. 1959. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 250275082 ...

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the most popular and prolific British writers of the late 19th century, the author of verse, novels, travel books, short stories, plays, and essays, including such titles as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island . There is considerable secondary literature on Stevenson, including book-length biographical studies, chronologies, and bibliographies. Summary information is available in the standard print and online biographical resources. ...

Allen, Walter, 1840-1907

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Walter Allen, born in Birmingham in 1911, was the fourth son of Charles Allen and his wife, Annie. He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Aston and then at Birmingham University. After graduation he became a freelance writer and during the course of his career was a prolific contributor to all kinds of publications. Allen was one of a small group of novelists, which included John Hampson, Henry Green and Leslie Halward, working in Birmingham in the later 1930s. His first n...

Abrahams, Gerald, 1907-

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Wilson, John Dover, 1881-1969

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Craig, Dennis

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Wirth-Miller, Denis; Chopping, Richard

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Runyan, Damon

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Whipple, Dorothy

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Thompson, Alan J. M. D.

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Knight, G. Wilson

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O'Brien, Edna

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Irish author Edna O'Brien (1930[?]–) is known primarily as a novelist. O'Brien has been described as "Ireland's most successful woman writer." "O'Brien, Edna." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 26, 2007). From the guide to the "Virginia" playscript, circa 1981, (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections) ...

Towers, Frances

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van Ransburg, Patrick

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Grossmith, George and Weedon

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Ashby, Eric, 1904-1992

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Epithet: President of the Literary and Debating Society Imperial College of Science and Technology British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x00007c ...

Martin, Kingsley, 1897-1969

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Basil Kingsley Martin (1897-1969) was born in Hereford in 1897 and schooled in the city, in South Africa and at Millfield. After serving in France (1917-18), he spent three years (1919-22) at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he developed his early interest in socialism. Fellowships at Princeton University (1922-23) and at Magdalene College (1924-25) allowed him to pursue research published in 1924 as The Triumph of Lord Palmerston, a study of Press manipulation of public opinion to make an un...

Howard, Nesta; Underwood, Spender

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McCloy, Helen.

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Moorhouse, Geoffrey

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Newton, Harold William.

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Russell, Thomas, 1941-....

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Epithet: of Add MS 37875 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000244.0x000237 Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000244.0x00023c Epithet: Rood-priest of Ashbourne, 'Sir' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000978.0x00029a Epithet: alia...

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960

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Albert Camus (1913-1960) was an influential intellectual and writer. He was born and raised in Algeria, but spent most of his life during World War II and afterwards in France. Camus received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. From the description of Albert Camus papers, 1936-1959. (Wesleyan University). WorldCat record id: 299152604 Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French author, journalist, and philosopher. From the guide to the Albert Camus Letters to Lucet...

Maugham, Somerset

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Bone, David W. (David William), 1874-1959

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Pope, Alexander, 1849-1924

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Epithet: of Stowe MS 180 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x000157 Epithet: of Add MS 40804 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x000152 Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), poet, was the son of a Roman Catholic linen-draper from London. As a boy, Pope suffered from ill health, which affected his growth and norm...

Barlow, T. D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pw8thp (person)

Forster, Leonard (ed.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wf67ph (person)

Warner, Denis, 1917-2012

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kq5j36 (person)

Journalist and author. Warner's journalistic career included South East Asian correspondent for the Reporter and Look and editor of the Asia Pacific Defence Reporter. His published works include The last Confucian, The tide at sunrise, The sacred warrior and Disaster in the Pacific.Who's who in Australia 2001, p. 1820. From the description of Papers of Denis Warner [manuscript]. 1949-1997. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223047968 ...

Priestley, J.B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mk6bb5 (person)

J. B. Priestley, playwright. From the description of An inspector calls: typescript, 1994. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122608422 J.B. Priestley, playwright; David Mamet, adapter, not credited here. From the description of Dangerous corner : typescript, 1996, January 4. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122626156 English author J.B. Priestley had a long and prolific career writing in numerous genres, and achieved critical a...

Doughty, Charles Montagu, 1843-1926

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kw5mr8 (person)

English poet, writer, traveler. From the description of Charles Montagu Doughty letter to Robert N. Green-Armytage [manuscript], no year May 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648020190 English poet and traveller. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Sandscombe, Tonbridge, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, [1922] Aug. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270527603 ...

Harrison, G. B. (ed.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65n8dkj (person)

Cadoux, C. J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wr2bmf (person)

Thompson, Paul W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q93n1w (person)

Collins, Norman

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tc3g2w (person)

Hoggart, Richard, 1918-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vf16nf (person)

The collection comprises a substantial part of the personal and working papers, manuscripts and associated correspondence relating to the life and work of Richard Hoggart, university teacher and professor of English literature and cultural studies, academic administrator, writer, broadcaster, literary critic, cultural analyst and international civil servant, whose work has spanned the second half of the twentieth century and continued into the early years of the twenty-first. ...

Williams, Charles

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63v9nd1 (person)

Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x0001cb Epithet: Principal of Jesus College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x0002e9 ...

Haslett, A. W. (ed.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fg61r7 (person)

Bates, H.E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m04bj7 (person)

Resident of Kent, England. From the description of Letters, 1930-1968. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34122419 Bates was an English writer and novelist. From the description of [Letters to] Miss. Heilburn / H. E. Bates. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 156913081 English author. From the description of In view of the fact that ... : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript signed of the short story, 1926? Mar. 6 [in a publisher's note...

White, Archie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bh4xd5 (person)

McKenna, Stephen, 1888-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b60dwm (person)

English novelist Stephen McKenna (1888-1967) published forty-seven novels and six nonfiction books during his lifetime. Most of his fiction focuses on English upper-class society drama interwoven with themes of politics and morality. Of Irish heritage, McKenna was born February 27, 1888, in Beckenhem, Kent, England. McKenna's uncle, Reginald McKenna (1863-1943) was a politician, banker, and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister Her...

Hyde, H. Montgomery (Harford Montgomery), 1907-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj2dhx (person)

Irish lawyer, Lt. Colonel in the British Army Intelligence Corps., professor of history and political science, and writer. From the description of H. Montgomery Hyde Collection, 1897-1971. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122385668 Harford Montgomery Hyde was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1907. His parents were James Johnstone Hyde, a linen merchant, and Isobel G. Montgomery, a distant cousin of H...

Adam, L.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xt8316 (person)

Fearnsides, W. G. ; Bulman, O. M. B.

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Weatherby, William J.

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Burns, Randy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mw3pg2 (person)

Epithet: of Add MS 12115 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0001f3 Epithet: Reverend; of Paisley British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0001f5 ...

Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mg8pgt (person)

Blackwood was an American author. From the description of Autograph, 1914. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79137494 English author. From the description of Typed letters signed (2) : London, to Tom Turner, 1949 Jan 3 and 1949 Mar. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270881469 English novelist and short-story writer. From the description of Letters, 1925 May 27 and 1926 Nov. 11. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas...

Mead, Margaret

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qd2bvk (person)

Jones, Gwyn (ed.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b6cp7 (person)

Macbeth, George (ed.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x75vv2 (person)

Frome, David

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63c8748 (person)

Piper, David (ed.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s87q8n (person)

Mutton, Frederick C.

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Whitelock, Dorothy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc6f63 (person)

Horrabin, J. F. ; Gregory, James S.

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Herbert, A.P. (Alan Patrick), 1890-1971

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English writer and politician. From the description of The secret battle : Hammersmith : autograph manuscript signed, 1918 Aug. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270483603 Epithet: Knight.; author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0002f0 ...

Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938

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Bernstein met Thomas Wolfe in 1925 on a voyage between Europe and New York. Wolfe and Bernstein, the wife of a prominent New York stock broker and 18 years older than Wolfe, became lovers in Oct. 1925 and remained so for the next five years. Wolfe's 1929 novel, Look Homeward Angel, was dedicated to Bernstein. From the description of [Account of a fire / Thomas Wolfe] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 492206991 Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born October 3, 1900 in Asheville, No...

Amis, Kingsley

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British novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. From the description of Collection, 1933-1968. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122492257 Kingsley Amis was a successful and productive English author. Born in London to a lower middle class family, he published his first story at eleven, and earned scholarships to the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford. After serving in World War I...

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6165668 (person)

Henry David Thoreau (b. July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts-d. May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts), American author, lecturer, naturalist, student of Native American artifacts and life, transcendentalist, land surveyor, and life-long resident of Concord, Massachusetts. He was an active opponent of slavery and a social critic. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837....

Skelton, Robin (ed.)

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Lorenz, Konrad

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Miller, Merle

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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...

Wedgwood, Josiah C. (Josiah Clement), 1872-1943

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Josiah Clement Wedgwood (1872-1943), Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1906-1942, and Lieutenant Commander, RNVR (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) and RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service), served on the Western Front, the Dardenelles and East Africa, 1914-1916, before serving on the Mesopotamia Commission in 1916, as Assistant Director, Trench Warfare, in 1917 and in Siberia in 1918. He was awarded the DSO (Distinguished Service Order) and twice mentioned in despatches. From the...

Caird, G. B.

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Paul, Elliot

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Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962

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Victoria Sackville-West (1892-1962), English poet, novelist, and author of books on gardening, known for her association with the Bloomsbury group and the gardens she designed at Sissinghurst Castle. From the description of Passenger to Teheran, 1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702191711 From the description of Victoria Sackville-West writings and commonplace book, 1910-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702184003 Vita Sackville-West was an English novelist, p...

Symons, A.J.A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tb1jq4 (person)

Alphonse James Albert Symons was born in a suburb of London and privately educated, until apprenticed to a furrier at age fourteen. With little experience in the book trade, he founded the First Editions Club, and soon published a bibliography of William Butler Yeats. An avid collector, he was editor of the Book-Collector's Quarterly, establishing himself as an authority on literature of the 1890s with essays and lectures. He wrote several biographies, notably The Quest for Corvo, an innovative ...

Stephens, Ian

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Davidson, Angus

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Morehead, Albert H. (Albert Hodges), 1909-1966

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Houot, Georges; Willm, Pierre

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Cannan, Joanna, 1896-1961

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Pye, David

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Illing, R.

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Starkie, Walter

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Pringle, J. M. D.

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Cunliffe, Marcus

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Paton, Alan

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Jones, Jack

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Jack Jones was born in Trealaw, Mid Rhondda in 1898. He passed a scholarship to Pentre Grammar School but in 1912 commenced employment in Cambrian Collieries. He was a founder member of the Communist Party in 1920. In about 1923-1924 Jack won the South Wales Miners' Federation Scholarship to the Central Labour College (London). However, in 1926 he was imprisoned in Cardiff Jail along with Lewis Jones during the Coal Strike for selling the 'Daily Worker' on private (colliery) premise...

Hart, Peggy M.

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Hewlett, Maurice, 1861-1923

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Maurice Henry Hewlett was an English novelist and poet. He was born in Surrey and entered the family law practice in 1878, later called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1890. He gave up law to concentrate on writing after the success of his first novel, The forest lovers, in 1898. This was followed by other novels and later poems and essays. From the description of Maurice Hewlett letters, 1900-1922. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 60525772 Ma...

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xs623k (person)

Wyndham Lewis was an artist, novelist, and critic, who was born in Canada but lived for many years in England. He was a leader of the Vorticist movement. From the guide to the Wyndham Lewis collection, 1877-1975, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) English author and painter. From the description of Letters, 1921-1934. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233126882 Author and artist Wyndham Lewis was b...

Palmer, W.T.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pq1f75 (person)

Temple, William, 1881-1944

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63207jh (person)

Epithet: of Add MS 32094 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001241.0x0000c3 Epithet: alias `Franciscus Mildapettus', Provost of Trinity College Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000270 Epithet: Hon; KCB; Minister at Naples British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/8...

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bv7dsg (person)

American novelist. From the description of One Man's Initiation, 1917, 1968-1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937079 American author, From the description of State of the nation [manuscript], 1944. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647807708 American author. From the description of Screenplay by John Dos Passos [manuscript], 1934 October 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647830975 F...

Halevy, Elie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g85nfh (person)

Vaillant, G. C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dk7pzw (person)

Hinde, Thomas

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Epithet: Merchant, of Liverpool British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000626.0x000350 ...

Szobel, Geza

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Rochefoucauld, La

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Gamow, George, 1904-1968

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George Gamow: physicist, astronomer, and author. Born Georgii Antonovič Gamov. Barbara Merrihew Perkins: editor and translator. From the description of George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers, 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981157 Russian-born American physicist, early advocate of the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe. Professor of Physics at George Washington University, 1934-1956. While a student at the Institute of Theoretical Ph...

Truscot, Bruce.

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Wallis, J. H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vr59jz (person)

Eysenck, H. J.

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Elvin, Lionel, 1905-....

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Grigoriev, S. L.

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Lee, Laurie

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Legum, Colin

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Huxley, Julian; Haddon, A. C.

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Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936

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Russian author. From the description of Autograph letter (incomplete at end and lacking signature) : [n.p.], to Walter Mett, 1922 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269563164 Russian novelist. From the description of Maksim Gorky appeal, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869098 Author. From the description of Papers of Maksim Gorky, 1922-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454921 880-11 Russkiĭ...

Hastings, Lewis

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Hayes, Alfred

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Wollheim, Richard, 1923-2003

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Richard Arthur Wollheim was born in London on May 5, 1923. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University. He taught philosopy at University College, London from 1949-1982. He also taught at Columbia University from 1982-1985, and at U.C. Berkeley from 1985 until his death on November 4, 2003. He held a chair in philosophy and humanities at U.C. Davis from 1989-1996. His areas of interest were painting, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and the philosophy of art. Am...

Queen, Ellery.

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Ellery Queen is a pseudonym for the writing team of Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971). Dannay and Lee were cousins who entered a writing contest co-sponsored by McClure's Magazine and Lippincott's publishing house, and formed the joint venture of Ellery Queen. Although they did not win the contest, the cousins were rewarded with a book publication deal. Between 1928 and 1971, "Ellery Queen" wrote radio shows, a monthly magazine, a weekly newspaper series, novels, and tel...

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fk35s7 (person)

American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...

Wakeman, Frederic, 1909-1998

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Jackson, W. Eric

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Cain, James M.

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Allen, W. E. D. ; Muratoff, Paul

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Holland, A. K.

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Norman, J.R. (John Roxborough), 1898-1944

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Webster, T.B.L.

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Hood, Peter, 1905-

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Weber, ...

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Rees, Dilwyn (Daniel, Glyn E.)

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Whitfield, John Humphreys.

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John Humphreys Whitfield, 1906-1995; Serena Professor of Italian Language and Literature at University of Birmingham, 1947-1970. Reference: Deposit file. For further reading about the University of Birmingham see: Eric Ives, Diane Drummond, Leonard Schwarz The First Civic University: Birmingham 1880-1980 An Introductory History (The University of University of Birmingham Press. 2000). From the guide to the University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Pa...

Cecil, David

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Williams, L. N. ; Williams, N.

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Armstrong, Charlotte

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Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011

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By Source, Fair use, Link Reynolds Price was born Edward Reynolds Price, in Macon, North Carolina, on 1 February 1933. He earned his B.A. degree from Duke University (1955) while on a full scholarship. After graduating, Price won a Rhodes scholarship, which allowed him to attend Merton College, Oxford. In 1958, Price received his Bachelor of letters from Merton College. His thesis focused on the English poet John Milton. Upon his return from Oxford, Price secured a position in the English d...

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930

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David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born September 11, 1885, in Eastwood, near Nottingham, to Arthur Lawrence, a coal miner, and Lydia Beardsall. He attended Nottingham University College, and in 1908 he took a teaching position at Davidson Road School in Croydon. Lawrence wrote in his spare time, and in 1911, with the help of Ford Maddox Hueffer, he published his first novel, The White Peacock . Poor health forced him to resign his teaching job this same year, at which time he bec...

Beattie, William (ed.)

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Moorehead, Alan, 1910-1983

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Moorehead, born in Croydon, Victoria, was a journalist with the Melbourne Herald, 1930-1935, a war correspondent with the Daily Express London, 1936-1945, and author of a wide range of books: historical (Gallipoli), travel books (No room in the ark), biographies (Montgomery) and novels (The rage of the vulture). From the description of Papers of Alan Moorehead. 1926-1971. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 221388454 ...

Mottram, R. H.

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Shaw, Charles Bunsen, 1894-1962

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Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967

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Author; interviewee married Alan Campbell. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy Rothschild Parker : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158240 Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, in an upper-middle-class family of mixed heritage. Estranged from her parents due to her dislike of her strict, devout stepmother, she read voraciously and wrote verse. Seeking a career in literature, she worked for Vogue,...

Roper, J. I

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Alvarez, A. (ed.)

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Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958

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Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was an Irish author and artist best known for his wood engravings. He bought and ran the Golden Cockerel Press in Berkshire, England from 1924-1933, when the stresses of the Great Depression forced him to sell the press. During and after World War II he wrote and illustrated several books on the landscape and natural history of various rivers (among them, 'Sweet Thames Run Softly', 'Going Down the Seine' and 'Lovely is the Lee') which resonated with readers concerned ...

Crammer, J. L. (ed.)

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Mortimer, Raymond, 1895-1980

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Raymond Mortimer, English author and literary critic, was literary editor (1935-1947) of the NEW STATESMAN. From the description of Raymond Mortimer letters to Edward Sackville-West, 1925-1963. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 81643059 Mortimer was an English literary and art critic and editor. He was the literary critic for the "New Stateman" from 1935 to 1947, and later was the principal reviewer for the London "Sunday Times." From the descri...

Stern, G. B.

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Dawood, N. J. (translat. and introd.)

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Schulberg, Budd

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Schulberg was a New York-born novelist, reared in Hollywood, who also wrote for the film and stage. He died in 2009 at the age of 95. From the description of Budd Schulberg papers, 1936-1967. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 609703260 American writer. From the description of The disenchanted (galley proof), 1950 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823236 ...

Venables, Bernard

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Jones, Elwyn

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Scott, Sir Harold

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Russell, Gordon, 1969-....

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Vigilantes (Zilliacus, K.)

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Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947

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Welsh novelist and essayist, a forerunner of 20th century Gothic science fiction. From the description of Eleusinia / by a former member of H. C. S. 1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122598531 From the guide to the Eleusinia, 1881, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Machen was a Welsh writer of tales, mystical, romantic, and macabre. From the description of Introduction to Lady Benson's Memoirs : manuscript, 1926. (Peking University Library). WorldCat...

Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956

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Beerbohm married Florence Kahn (1876-1951), an American actress, on May 4, 1910. From the description of Max Beerbohm letters to Florence Kahn, 1904-1948 (bulk 1904-1909). (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 122418146 B. 1872 d. 1956. From the description of Max Beerbohm artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228432818 Beerbohm was a British author and caricaturist. Turner was a British author. From...

Du Maurier, Daphne

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Bush, Raymond.

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Warner, Oliver

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Public official of Massachusetts. From the description of Oliver Warner commission, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982808 ...

Fuller, Roy

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Norman, James, 1970-

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Epithet: of Bromley Kent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001150.0x0001d4 Epithet: of Londonderry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000216.0x000366 ...

Bonnamy, Francis

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Tchehov, Anton

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Obolensky, Dimitri (ed.)

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Duff, S. Grant

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Bridge, Ann, 1889-1974

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British novelist. From the description of Papers, 1815-1973, (bulk 1905-1973). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122453155 ...

Cohen, J. M.

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Stafford-Clark, David

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Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961

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Author. From the description of Papers, 1905-1911. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 28084787 The British writer George Oliver Onions was born November 13, 1872, in Bradford, England; he died April 9, 1961. After studying art at the National Arts Training Schools (now the Royal Academy) in London, and then in Paris, Onions began his career as a commercial artist. Onions legally changed his name to George Oliver in 1918, but continued to publish ghost sto...

Webb, Kaye; Searle, Ronald

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Wordsworth, William

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Epithet: Principal of Elphinstone College, Bombay; CIE 1887 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x0002b4 ...

Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963

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Playwright; New York, N.Y. From the description of Clifford Odets sketches. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 42743828 Clifford Odets was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1906. He left school at age fourteen and worked as an actor in local New York theater groups and traveling stock companies until 1930. That same year the Group Theatre was formed. As one of the founding members, Odets continued acting, but found new release for his creativity in writing pl...

Wise, Arthur

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Coombes, R. A. H.

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Mitchell, Charles

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Epithet: M D British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000375 Epithet: MD, Surgeon RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000376 Epithet: Turnkey to French Prison at Plymouth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000000...

Bonett, John and Emery

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Marco Polo

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Irwin, Margaret, 1889-1969

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Fauconnier, Henry

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Schubert, ...

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Bramah, Ernest

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Taylor, Geoffrey (Geoffrey Richard)

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Mann, Ida; Pirie, Antoinette

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Johnston, Arnrid, 1895-1972

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Bonhamn-Carter, Victor

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Curtis, James, 1953-

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Chevallier, Gabriel, 1895-1969

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Galbraith, Winifred.

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Schonfield, Hugh J. (Hugh Joseph), 1901-1988

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English author, editor, and translator; well known in the world of Biblical studies; d. 1988. From the description of Hugh Schonfield collection, 1890-1993. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968740 ...

Sharp, Thomas

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Epithet: antiquary of Coventry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000296.0x0002fc Epithet: Reverend; of Leeds British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000006 Epithet: of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000004 ...

Malraux, Andre

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Plomer, William

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Sagan, Francoise

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Dunkerley, Roderic.

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Edwards, I. E. S.

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Bishop of Chichester, The (Bell, G. K. A.)

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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

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Author, newspaper editor. From the description of Letter to Maurice Hanline, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349777 American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. From the guide to the Sherwood Anderson miscellany, 1981, undated, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Author. From the description of Death in the woods : annotated short story, circa 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983

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German-born art and architectural historian, editor and professor, Nikolaus Pevsner was a scholar of European architecture, 19th and 20th century design, Italian Baroque painting and German sculpture. He worked with the Dresden Gallery from 1924 to 1928 and taught at Göttingen before emigrating to England in 1933. He subsequently taught at Birkbeck College and the Courtauld Institute, and lectured as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge and Oxford. He was a member of the editorial board of the A...

Seward, Georgene H. (Georgene Hoffman), 1902-1992

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Professor of psychology, University of Southern California. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1958. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122543754 ...

Bede, Rita.

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Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

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Golding, William, active 17th century

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Epithet: brother of A Golding British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x000116 ...

Ford, Boris (ed.)

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Dryden, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 23904 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x00035a Epithet: of Add MS 38671 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x000360 Epithet: of Add MS 12112 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x000358 Epithet: of Add MS 3986...

Duggan, Alfred

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Martienssen, Anthony

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Nabarro, Derrick

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Bell, Lady (ed.)

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Cary, Joyce, 1888-1957

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Joyce Cary was a British author, best known as a novelist. Born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and raised in England, Cary was a sickly youth who showed a talent for writing and painting; he studied art, but questioned his ability and quit to attend Trinity College, Oxford, instead. He served with the Red Cross during the Balkan War, and joined the Nigerian Political Service, spending his spare time reading and writing. He found initial success with short fiction, and as he began to write nov...

Hollowood, Bernard, 1910-1981

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Epithet: editor of 'Punch' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001027.0x00030a ...

Abraham, James Johnston

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Paris, John

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Epithet: bookseller of Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000862.0x0003e7 ...

Herodotus

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London, Jack (John L.)

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Brown, J. A. C. (James Alexander Campbell), 1911-1964

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Sullivan, J.W.N. (John William Navin), 1886-1937

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Carr, E. H.

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Laski, Harold J.

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de Monfreid, Henry

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Williams, Iolo A.

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Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989

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Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a Belgian writer who published nearly 200 novels and numerous short stories. He is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. William Jovanovich was an American publisher and president of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, responsible for supporting and publishing a number of important 20th century writers including Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, and Umberto Eco. From the guide to the Georges Simenon correspondence with William Jovanovic...

Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968

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American novelist, short story writer and playwright. From the description of Letters, 1912-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122415400 American fiction writer and playwright. From the description of Typed letter signed : Stepney Depot, Conn., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1944 Oct. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868073 Author. From the description of Edna Ferber letter, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450230 Author of popu...

Penguin Books

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Rice, David Talbot, 1903-1972

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Epithet: Byzantine scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x00018b ...

White, T.H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964

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English novelist. From the description of Notes on Ernest Hemingway and on his For whom the bell tolls, [1941?]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122385625 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Doolistown, Trim, Co. Meath, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1945 Sept. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587424 Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Perso...

Daninos, Pierre

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James, Philip

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Philip James, (1890-1975), American composer of choral and orchestral music, was born on May 17, 1890 in Jersey City, N.J., to a Welsh father and German mother. At an early age, he began piano, violin, and theory lessons, and served as choirboy in several New Jersey churches. He was deeply involved in the liturgy and music of the Episcopal Church and composed his first hymn at the age of ten. From 1904 to 1909 he studied organ with J. Warren Andrews and in 1907 began advanced harmon...

Levi, Carlo

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Epithet: Italian writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x00004e ...

Traver, Robert (Voelker, John D.)

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Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932

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Lytton Strachey was born to an upper-middle class family in London, and educated at Cambridge, where he was part of the rebellious Apostles, a precursor to the Bloomsbury Group. Strachey became an essayist and literary critic; he also wrote poetry, but is best remembered as a biographer. Although he wrote some conventional biographies, his best work was Eminent Victorians, a collection of biographical essays that relied on Strachey's trademark psychological insight rather than exhaustive researc...

Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969

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Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf, was a unique thinker and theorist in his own right--sophisticated, principled, and humane. His legacy is inextricably tied with the Bloomsbury Set, one of the most influential literary groups of the 20th century, and with Hogarth Press, which he co-founded with his wife. From the description of Leonard Woolf letter to Wigram, 1935 June 10. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52221264 Leonard Sidney Woolf (1...

Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron, 1887-1962

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John Edward Hugh Neale Dalton, 1887-1962, was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He won the Winchester Reading Prize at Cambridge in 1909 and the Hutchinson Research studentship at LSE 1911-1913. He became a Barrister-at-law in 1914, and it was also in this year that he married Ruth Fox. During World War I, Dalton served in the RASC and the Royal Artillery in France and Italy, and was attached to the Ministry of Labour for special investigations in 1919. After the war he returned to...

Young, Francis Brett, 1884-1954

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Frances Brett Young, novelist, short-story writer and poet, born in Halesowen. His father was a doctor and his mother also came from a medical family so it was natural that Francis trained at Birmingham University to become a physician. He started practice at Brixham, Devon, in 1907 and married the following year. His wife was a singer and he accompanied her as well as setting poems to music for her. During the First World War he saw service in Africa in the Medical Corps but was in...

Chopping, Richard

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Harland, Henry

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Epithet: novelist and journal editor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x000149 Epithet: of Woburn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x00024a ...

Houghton, Claude

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Bowen, Marjorie

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Hodge, Harry, ....-1947

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Street, A. G.

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Commager, Henry Steele

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Epithet: Professor US historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000061 ...

Tomlinson, R. R.

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Ure, Peter (ed.)

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Gibbs, F. W. (Frederick William)

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Auden, W. H.

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Haskell, Arnold

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Silone, Ignazio, 1900-1978

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Pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli; born in Pescina dei Marsi, Italy 1900, died in Geneva 1978; writer; secretary of the Abruzzi farm labourers' union in 1917; convicted for organizing antiwar demonstrations; joined the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) in 1918; leader in the Federazione Italiana Giovanile Socialista; editor of the Avanguardia Socialista; member of the Executive of the Communist Youth International; joined the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) in Livorno in 1921; PCI delegate at the...

Cooper, William

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Epithet: Bookseller, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x000296 Epithet: of Sloane MS 3452 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x00029c Epithet: plate-glass manufacturer to the Queen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x00029d ...

Wood, Ernest

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Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888

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Matthew Arnold's reflective, urbane poetry and novels thoughtfully express the social issues and religious confusion of Victorian England. He worked as a school inspector, and his belief in liberal education is a theme in his poetry and essays. From the description of Matthew Arnold letters, 1875-1886. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50209290 British poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Williams [manuscript], n.y. March 21. (...

Drever, James

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Van Der Post, Laurent

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Housman, A.E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936

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A.E. Housman was a classical scholar, professor of Latin at Cambridge University, and poet. From the description of Letter to "Dear Sirs," 1922. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122288834 English poet and classical scholar. At Trinity College, Cambridge, 1911-1936. From the description of [Letter] 1931 Apr. 15, Trinity College, Cambridge, England [to Helen] Peck / A. E. Housman. (Smith College). WorldCat record id...

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010

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Jerome David Salinger is infamously reclusive, and there are few known facts about his life. He was born on January 1, 1919, to an upper-middle–class family in New York City. His Jewish father, Sol, worked as an importer of ham. His mother, Miriam (born Marie Jillich), was of Scotch-Irish descent. His one sister, Doris, is eight years his senior. As a child, Salinger attended schools near his home in Manhattan. In 1932 he was enrolled in the McBurney School, a private institution t...

Lippmann, Walter, 1899-1974

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Epithet: American political commentator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000062 ...

Horsefield, J. Keith (John Keith), 1901-1997

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Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Ward, Barbara

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Hughes, Richard

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Epithet: of Add MS 14888 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x000026 Epithet: brewer, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x000020 Epithet: Captain, RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x000023 Epithet: Navy Commissione...

Racine, Jean, 1946-....

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Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000799.0x0003e4 Epithet: of Add MS 37232 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001197.0x0003be ...

Hostler, Phyllis

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Woldege, Brian (ed.)

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Sen, Kshitimohan

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Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott, 1888-1957

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Ronald A. Knox was born in Knibworth, Leicestershire on Feb. 17, 1888 to Ellen Penelope French and Rev. Edmund Arbuthnott Knox. He completed his formal education at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford in 1910. He was appointed chaplain at Trinity College in 1912, but left in 1917 when he converted to Roman Catholicism. He served as Roman Catholic chaplain to the university from 1926-1939 and was appointed as a prelate by the pope in 1936. He was a prolific writer, writing both religious com...

Hastings, Macdonald

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Krylaov, Ivan Pares, Bernard translat.

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Leavis, F. R.

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Gourdie, Tom

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Robertson, Alec (ed.)

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Greene, Graham

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Curnow, Allen (ed.)

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Kariuki, Josiah Mwangi

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Culbertson, Ely, 1891-1955

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Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966

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English novelist and travel writer. From the description of Evelyn Waugh Collection, 1843-1994 (bulk 1910-1966). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122492298 Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (1903-1966) ranks as one of the outstanding satiric novelists of the 20th century. Hilariously savage wit and complete command of the English language were hallmarks of his style. He was born in London on Oct. 28, 1903, the son...

Miller, Henry.

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Biography Henry Valentine Miller was born on December 26, 1891, in the Yorkville section of New York City to Heinrich Miller and Louise Marie Nieting, second generation Americans of German ancestry. He was raised in Brooklyn where the family moved after his first year. After graduating from high school in 1909, Miller entered City College of New York, but, unable to comform to the academic routine, left after only two months. Over the next te...

Donne, John

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Epithet: Mayor of Lyme Regis British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000508.0x00012e Epithet: senior, of Teynham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000508.0x00012f John Donne (1572-1631), poet and divine, was educated privately and at Hart Hall, Oxford, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1592. He was ordained priest and deacon in 1615,...

Hodge, James H.

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Richmond, Anthony H., 1925-....

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Ward, Maisie, 1889-1975

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Nicol, Hugh, 1898-

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White, Patrick

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Patrick White was a major merchant in Petersburg, Va. From at least August, 1791 through July, 1794, White was in partnership with Conway Whittle of Norfolk, specializing in the trade in grain and flour, but dabbling as well in corn, bread, tobacco, sugar, rum, nails, iron, Irish linen, hemp, and a profusion of other goods that came to hand. In 1794, White, Whittle & Co. dissolved when Whittle established Conway Whittle & Co., in Norfolk. Patrick White continued in trade as ...

Dickens, Charles

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Mr. Dickens is a farmer and machinery dealer in Savannah, N.Y. From the description of Charles Dickens oral history, 1968. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934414 ...

Thurber, James, 1894-1961

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James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1894. Considered one of the 20th century's more prominent humorists, he wrote nearly forty books of stories, essays, autobiography, and a Broadway play. Thurber passed away in 1961. From the description of James Thurber letters to Mrs. Robert Sterling, 1946-1950. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 181589252 Epithet: author and cartoonist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person ...

Bush, Christopher, 1968-

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Cave, C. J. P. (Charles John Philip), 1871-

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Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur

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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848

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Emily Bronte was a British poet and novelist. Born on July 30, 1818, she began writing poetry at the age of eighteen and continued throughout her life although the poems were not intended for publication. Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, was published in 1847....

Duncan-Jones, Austin, 1908-1967

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Laski, Marghanita

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Fox, H. Munro

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Lack, David, 1910-1973

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National Research Council Committee

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Atkinson, William C.

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Blake, Nicholas, 1904-1972

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Jacobs, Arthur

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Ferguson, Rachel, 1893-

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Rachel Ferguson was a British author and humorist known for her witty take on Victorian domestic comedy. Trained as an actress, she left the stage and worked in a hospital in World War I. She became drama critic for the Sunday Chronicle, and drew praise for her own play parodies. She was a major contributor to Punch, displaying a wit and charm that later transferred successfully to her novels. She was also active in social reform, notably women's movements. From the description of Ra...

Hulten, Bertil

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Collis, Maurice

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Epithet: land-surveyor to Trinity College, Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000367.0x00000b ...

Smith, Emma

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Epithet: niece of Sir T Smith British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x000334 Epithet: of York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x000335 ...

Ashton-Warner, Sylvia

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New Zealand author, poet, and teacher; b. 1908; d. 1984. From the description of Sylvia Ashton-Warner collection, 1929-1972. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70978841 ...

Eddington, Sir Arthur

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Vickers, Roy

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Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006

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German born English writer and journalist. From the description of Sybille Bedford Papers, 1914-2001 (bulk 1940s-1980s). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122481640 Sybille Bedford was born in 1911 at Charlottenburg, Germany, to Maximilian von Schoenebeck and Elizabeth Bernard. Her parents divorced in 1918 and her mother moved to Italy, but Bedford remained with her father in the southern German v...

Kendrick, Baynard H.

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Thompson, Edward

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Epithet: Minister of Charlotte Chapel, Pimlico British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0000a1 Epithet: Commissioner of Revenues, Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0000a0 Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x00009c ...

Blom, Eric (ed.)

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Goad, Harold

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Eberhart, M. G.

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Gearon, John

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O'Faolain, Sean (Whelan, John)

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Walker, Kenneth

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Wint, Guy, 1910-1969

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Descartes

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Rice, Tamara Talbot

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Tamara Borisovna Talbot Rice (ne Abel'son; 1904-1993) was an art historian and a member of the post-revolutionary Russian migr community in Great Britain From the guide to the Tamara Talbot Rice papers, 1897-1996, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...

Skibulits, Anne; Hutton, Clarke

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James, Dr. M. R.

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Burgh, W. G. de

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Maas, Carl

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Cloete, Stuart

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, 1886-1959

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A. Cherry-Garrard, 1886-1959, was the assistant zoologist on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, led by Captain R. F. Scott. From the description of Scientific notes [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225809723 ...

Gerbault, Alain

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Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

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Lafitte, F.

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Walmsley, Leo, 1892-

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Bertram, Anthony

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Saroyan, William, 1908-1981

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Frances Ring was Editor at WESTWAYS in Los Angeles. From the description of Letters (and manuscripts and photos) to Frances Ring, 1970-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863419 Goldie Weisberg was a fellow writer whose work Saroyan had discovered in a literary magzine. Saroyan initiated the correspondence, which focuses on their respective reading, writing, and work lives. From the description of Correspondence with Goldie Weisberg, 1930-1938. (Unknown). Wor...

Alvarez, A., ingénieur agronome

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Reid, Forrest, 1875-1947

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English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Belfast, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1939 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270865097 Northern Irish novelist Forrest Reid was also a biographer, critic, essayist, and translator. Born on June 24, 1875 (or 1876 according to some sources), in Belfast, Ireland, Forrest Reid was a founding member of the Irish Academy of Letters. Reid's last orig...

Carter, F. W. P.

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Cohen, J. M. (ed.)

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Hardy, A.C. (Alfred Cecil), 1898-

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Sackville-West, Edward, Hon., 1901-1965

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English novelist. Sackville-West wrote light, witty novels. He also published a book of critical essays. From the description of Edward Sackville-West letters, 1928-1962. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 33218455 ...

Epstein, Isidore

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Clark, C.

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Hodge, James H. S.

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Marcuse, F. L. (Frederick L.)

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de Tocqueville, Alexis

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O'Flaherty, Liam

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Hadek, Jaroslav

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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

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Jane Austen (b. December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England–d. July 18, 1817, Winchester, England) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary, have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars. With the publications of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814)...

Pendle, George

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Smith, Malcolm, 1938-

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Epithet: singer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x0000a7 ...

Rolph, G. H.

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Harris, Rex

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Smith, A. Croxton (Arthur Croxton), 1865-1952

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Birkett, Lord

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Welch, Denton.

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Maurice Denton Welch (1915-1948) was an English writer and painter. From the guide to the Denton Welch Typescript, undated, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Denton Welch (1915-1948), novelist and artist, was born in Shanghai, China, on 29 March 1915, the youngest of the three sons of Arthur Welch (d1942), a partner in the trading firm of Wattie & Co, and his American wife, Rosalind Bassett (d1926). The family was well-off,...

Fletcher, C. M. et al

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Moore, George

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Epithet: of Hinxton, near Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000289 Epithet: of Lambeth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x00028a Epithet: Captain HEIC Navy British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000284 Epithet: mercha...

Gilmour, John Scott Lennox, 1906-

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Kalmus, H.

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Barlow, James, 1921-

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Thoene, Peter

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Faulkner, William

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Epithet: trade union official British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x00008c From the guide to the William Faulkner papers, 1925-1973, 1931-1973, (Literature and Rare Books) ...

Low

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Daly, Elizabeth

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Broster, D. K. (Dorothy Kathleen)

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Field, Joanna

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Shalimar (Hendry, F. C.)

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Plumb, J.H. (John Harold), 1911-2001

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Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943

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Woollcott, American critic, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and the inspiration for the character of Sheridan Whiteside in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. From the description of [Letters, 1929-1940] / Alexander Woollcott. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 491398373 American drama critic, journalist, playwright, essayist, and actor. From the description of Alexander Woollcott collection, 1921-[194-]. (Boston Univers...

Forester, C.S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966.

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C.S. Forester (1899-1966) was an author and historian best known for his tales of seafaring life. His most famous works are the 11-volume Horatio Hornblower series, set during the era of the Napoleonic Wars, and the novel The African Queen, adapted into a film by John Huston in 1951. Born in Cairo to British parents and educated in England, Forester settled in California at the end of World War II, where he lived until his death. From the description of C.S. Forester papers, 1940-196...

Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964

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English author of biographies, short stories, plays, and travel writing. From the description of Hesketh Pearson Papers, 1789-2001 (bulk 1921-1964). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122481627 Biographer of Oscar Wilde. From the description of Letters : concerning Oscar Wilde, [1882]-1945 (bulk 1943-1945). (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122316949 Hesketh...

Murray, Peter and Linda

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Hare, Cyril

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Savage, George, 1909-....

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Per note in collection: George Savage was a pioneer timberman of the Washington Territory. From the guide to the George Savage scrapbook, circa 1886-1910, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Epithet: of co. Derby, clerk British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000615.0x00001c Epithet: Vicar of Kingston-on Thames British Library Archives and...

Warner, Rex

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Author, translator and professor of English, Rex Warner was born 9 March 1905, in Birmingham, England, the son of Frederick Ernest (a clergyman) and Kathleen (Luce) Warner . Educated at Wadham College, Oxford (B.A. with honors, 1928), Warner was a member of the British Home Guard from 1942 until 1945. He was employed as a teacher in England and Egypt (1928-1945) and was associated with the control commission in Berlin, Germany (1945) and director of British Institute in Athens, Gree...

Arno, Peter

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Garratt, Arthur (ed.)

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White, Gwen

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Salisbury, E. J.

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Bolitho, William

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Bradford, Ernie

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Willock, Colin

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Dallow, Mark

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Homer, ...

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Raphael, Frederic

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Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968

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Epithet: writer and diplomatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x00010c Sir Harold George Nicolson was born in Teheran and he spent his life in the diplomatic corps at posts in Berlin, Teheran, Constantinople, and Madrid. At the end of his diplomatic career Nicolson pursued a career in journalism and politics, during which time he served as a member of the National Liberal Party in Parliment. ...

Taylor, Gerald

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Hornung, E.W. (Ernest William), 1866-1921

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Ernest William (Willie) Hornung (1866-1921) was born on 7 June 1866, the son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, who had settled in Middlesbrough. E. W. Hornung's education began at Dame School, the life at which is portrayed in his book 'Young Blood'. From there he proceded to St Ninian's, Moffat. He was one of the nine boys with which the school was opened at Easter 1879 by A. J. C. Dowding and Rev W. H. Churchill. In 1880 Hornung went to Uppingham whilst the famous Edward Thring ...

Hart, B. H. Liddell

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Xenophon

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Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571

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Italian goldsmith and sculptor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Florence] to the Majordomo of His Excellency [Pier Francesco Ricci], 1549 Dec. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 430352886 From the description of Conto delle spece ... di Perseo : [Florence], after 1549 Sept. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 430350361 ...

Beresford, J. D.

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Robbins, Michael

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Crane, Frances

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Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906

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Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x0002bc Henrik Ibsen, playwright. W.L. Turner, translator. From the description of Rosmersholm: typescript, 1998. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122430738 Playwright. From the description of A doll home : playscript, 1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454948 Norwegian poet and dramatist. ...

Hebrard, Frederique

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Read, Herbert, 1893-1968

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Sir Herbert Edward Read was a poet, art critic and champion of modern art in Britain. He produced approximately 1,150 titles on a broad range of topics. His 80 monographs include: 26 on art and artists; 14 on literary criticism; 13 collections of poetry; 10 on politics, primarily on anarchism; 7 on "belles lettres" and biography; 5 on education, most notably "Education Through Art"; and 5 autobiographies. From the description of Sir Herbert Edward Read fonds. [1918-1965]. (University...

Ward, A.C. (Alfred Charles), 1891-

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Symonds, R. W.

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Montague, C. E.

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Farrington, Benjamin

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Richards, J. M. ; Mock, Elizabeth

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Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978

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Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), the British writer, was the author of novels, short stories, poetry, a biography of T.H. White, and other writings. From the description of Sylvia Townsend Warner letters, 1937-1977. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122687134 Sylvia Townsend Warner was an English novelist, poet, biographer, and translator. From the description of Sylvia Townsend Warner collection of papers, 1922-1978. (New York Public Library). Wo...

Dower, Gandar

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Colette

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Morpurgo, J. E. (ed.)

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Alexander, Peter, 1917-2006

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Epithet: of Add MS 28902 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x00013b Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000169 ...

Socialist Union

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Browning, Robert

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x0002d0 Epithet: of Add MS 44408 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000795.0x0000d5 ...

McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967

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Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, as Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, the first born of Lamar and Marguerite Waters Smith. Though she moved from the South in 1934 and only returned for visits, most of her writing was inspired by her southern heritage. Her mother felt she had given birth to a genius from the time Carson was very young and always remained her staunchest supporter and strongest ally. When nine years of age, Lula began studying piano and practiced six to eight h...

Fleming, Peter, 1944-

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Peter Fleming was born in 1907. His father, Valentine Fleming, a barrister, was MP for Henley 1910-1917 and was killed in action in 1917. Peter's brother Ian, the creator of James Bond, was born in 1908. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, Peter Fleming became literary editor of The Spectator and travelled widely, chiefly as Special Correspondent for The Times, for which he also wrote many Fourth Leaders during the later 1930s. He published popular travel books during this p...

Balzac, Honoré de

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Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane, 1913-2011

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Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, 1891-1974

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Brown was an English author and journalist. From the description of Letter, 1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83722838 Epithet: writer and theatre critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x00027b ...

Patti, Ercole, 1903-

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Stokes, H. G.

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Suyin, Han

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Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956

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Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897 - 1956) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War. From the description of Note, 1956. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 17928870 Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) was an American military, naval, and science fiction novelist. Born in Buffalo, New York, Pratt is said to have been raised on an Indian reservation. He attended Hobart College for a ye...

Crispin, Edmund, 1921-1978

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Taylor, J. V.

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Macdonald, Betty

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Seltman, Charles Théodore 1886-1957

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Chisholm, Cecil.

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Falkner, John Meade, 1858-1932

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Lucey, R. M.

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Massingham, Hugh.

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Perry, W. J. (William James)

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Campbell, Bruce, 1948-

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Dean, Joseph

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Smith, Arthur, 1948-

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Epithet: Curator of Lincoln City Museum British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x00024b ...

Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953

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Theodore Francis Powys was the brother of Lewelyn Powys (1884-1939). From the guide to the Papers of Theodore Francis Powys, 1928, 1928, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections) Theodore Francis Powys was a member of the literary Powys family. He left his farm in Suffolk at the age of twenty-six to retire to the small village of East Chaldon and write. Living like a hermit, he wrote novels, short stories, and fables. His works...

Hancock, W. K.

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MacLagan, Eric

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Butler, Samuel

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Epithet: of Kenilworth; of Add MS 42072 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x00015a Epithet: of Add MS 36711 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x000157 Samuel Butler (1835-1902), philosophical writer, was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge, before he emigrated to New Zealand in 1859. On his...

Merriman, Henry Seton, 1862-1903

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Epithet: alias 'Henry Seton Merriman', novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x000041 ...

Pevsner, Nikolaus; Richmond, Ian A.

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Webb, Mary.

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Colquhoun, Norman

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Masters, John, 1914-1983

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Marine Corps officer. From the description of Reminiscences of John H. Masters : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481173 ...

Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001

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Gould, John A.

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Epithet: MA; of Bridgewater British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x00000a ...

Vulliamy, C. E. (Colwyn Edward), 1886-1971

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Moore, W. G

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Symons, Julian (ed.)

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Mansfield, Katherine

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Goethe, Hermann, 1837-1911

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Bridgewater, Patrick (ed.)

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Young, E. H. (Emily Hilda), 1880-1949

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Buchanan, Colin

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Grant, Michael, 1940 December 21-

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Banks, F. R.

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Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter : place not specified, to Georges Deyverdun, 1775 May 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269587493 From the description of Letter, 1775 Feb. 17, to [Hester Gibbon?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500050 From the description of Library catalogue cards, ca. 1783-1789. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122289309 From the description of Receipt book : manuscript, 1780-1783. (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

Zola, Emile

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Giles, F. T.

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Morrell, J. M. (ed.)

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Pritt, D. N. (Denis Nowell), 1887-1972

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Denis Noel Pritt, 1887-1972, was educated at Winchester, London University, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. He obtained an LLB from London University and was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1909, he retired from practice in 1960. He was a Labour MP for Hammersmith North from 1935-1950, despite being expelled from the Labour Party in 1940. He was also Professor of Law at the University of Ghana, 1965-1966, chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform and chairman of the Bentham Committee f...

Wright, Raymond (ed.)

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Edwardes, Michael

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Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975

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P. G. Wodehouse was an American and English novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and short-story writer. From the description of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse collection of papers, 1905-1975. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465613 From the guide to the Pelham Grenville Wodehouse collection of papers, 1905-1975, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) British author. From ...

Gombrich, E. H. ; Kris, E.

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Nye, R. B. ; Morpurgo, J. E.

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Grey, Zane (Musician)

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Modigliani, Amedeo, 1884-1920

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Ford, E. B.

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Thomas, R. S. (ed.)

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Grant, Michael (ed.)

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Hinkson, Pamela

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Heiden, Konrad, 1901-1966

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Katz, David

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Macinnes, Colin

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Author and journalist Colin MacInnes was born in London; he lived in Australia with his mother and her second husband between 1920 and 1930. His novels feature heightened social awareness, comic effect, and overly earnest writing that often preached rather than dramatized themes. From the description of Colin MacInnes letters, 1954-1969. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50849494 Critic, essayist, novelist. Born in England, came to Australia in 1...

Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970

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Novelist. From the description of Letters, 1947-1970. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36570102 From the description of Letters, 1920-1935. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36988534 From the description of E. M. Forster papers, [ca. 1936-1968]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 495526585 Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_...

Stenton, Doris Mary Parsons, Lady

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Poston, Elizabeth (ed.)

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Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian

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Warner, Esther

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Lester-Smith, W. O.

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War, F. Kingdon

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Bentley, E. C. ; Allen, H. Warner

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Garbett, Cyril, 1875-1955

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Keres, Paul; Kotov, Alexander

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Haynes, E. Barrington

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Wiseman, Foster

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Cowell, F. R.

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Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940

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Author. From the description of Letter : to Henry Ravenel Dwight, 1931 Jan. 4. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37521975 From the description of Letters to Robert N.S. Whitelaw, 1940. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522020 Author, of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Peter Ashley promotional poster [picture] ; [1932]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 38943426 Po...

Stribling, T. S.

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Hatfield, H. (Henry)

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Brand, Christianna

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Miss Read

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Mowrer, Edgar

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Thompson, Denys (ed.)

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Lavin, Mary

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000318 ...

Jarvis, Alan

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Leeper, Janet.

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MacColl, D. S.

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Wright, S. Fowler (Sydney Fowler), 1874-1965

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Saki (Munro, H. H.)

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Pares, Bernard

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Epithet: KBE British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x000226 ...

Lessing, Doris

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Fry, Roger

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Stewart, George R., 1895-1980

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American writer, professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of George Rippey Stewart papers, 1914-1984. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 84641753 From the description of George Rippey Stewart papers : additions, 1750-1985. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 84653238 Biographical Information George Rippey Stewart, writer and ...

Solomon, A. K.

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Grigson, Geoffrey, 1905-

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Penguin (Firm)

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Masterman, J.C. (John Cecil), 1891-1977

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Ruhleben civilian concentration camp was established after outbreak of WWI on site of racetrack outside Berlin and was in operation until Armistice Day. Largest number of civilians interned at its peak was 4,500. Included other nationalities but the majority were British. Internees established their own camp organization, mail service, sports clubs, cultural, educational programs, hygienic measures. From the description of Sir John Masterman collection of Ruhleben British Civilian in...

Coppard, A. E.

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Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956

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Michael Arlen was an Anglo-Bulgarian novelist, short-story and film-script writer. From the description of Michael Arlen collection of papers, 1921-[1953]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122485081 From the guide to the Michael Arlen collection of papers, 1921-[1953, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) ...

Murdoch, Iris

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Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was an Irish-born British author and philosopher. From the guide to the Iris Murdoch typescript, no date, (Ohio University) Author and phiolosopher. From the description of Papers of Iris Murdoch, [1953-1994?]. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233111762 Irish philosopher, teacher, and novelist, Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was acquainted with and influenced by philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and by bohemian a...

Richardson, John

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Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x0002ea Epithet: Rector of Winterbourne Stickland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x000301 Epithet: of Add MS 4317 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x0002fa Epithet: of ...

Klee, Paul

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Madge, Charles; Harrison, Tom

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Adam, Leonhard, 1891-1960

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France, Anatole, 1844-1924

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French writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Anthippe Sevastos Couchoud, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 607535293 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Anthippe Sevastos Couchoud, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 607557572 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, to Anthippe Sevastos Couchoud, [1917 Dec. 14]. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Morton, H. V

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Uttley, Alison, 1884-1976

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A prolific English author whose career spanned almost fifty years,Alison Uttley was best known for creating Little Grey Rabbit, a character who,with an assortment of friends, appeared in more than 30 books. Some of her essays are thinly veiled autobiographical reminiscences of her childhood in England at the turn of the 20th century. From the description of Papers, 1931-1967. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62444957 A prolific English author whose...

Crofts, Freeman Wills

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000033 ...

Hurd, D. L. ; Kipling, J. J.

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Richmond, I. A.

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Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556

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Author of Il Galateo (1558, part of Rime et Prose), the most popular courtesy book of the Renaissance intended specifically for children. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Venice, to Pietro Vettori, 1547 Nov. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270955844 ...

Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956

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British author. From the description of Letters, 1897-1920. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34052678 Edmund Clerihew Bentley was born in London and educated at Oxford. He studied law, but devoted himself to journalism, writing for the Daily News and Daily Telegraph in London. He is perhaps best remembered for his light verse, including the collection Biography for Beginners, which featured the verse form he devised for short, humorous biographical poems, the C...

Wilson, Edmund

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Edmund Wilson was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. From the description of Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122596904 From the guide to the Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) American author and critic. From the description of Typewritten letters signed...

Phillips, Hubert; Reese, Terence

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Hersey, John

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Geyl, Peter

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McGregor, R. J. (Reginald James)

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Cross, Beryl; Phillips, Herbert

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Mann, James

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Epithet: clothier, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001128.0x0000dc ...

Temple, William (Archbishop of Canterbury)

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Ranson, Florence

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Hughes, A.J.

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Barnett, S. A. ; McLaren, Anne (eds.)

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Fitt, Mary

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Jungk, Robert

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Nichols, Beverley

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Nevinson, H. W.

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Hubback, Eva M., 1886-1949

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Wilder, Thornton Niven

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Streatfeild, Noel

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Noel Streatfield was born in England in 1897, the daughter of the Bishop of Lewes, previously the vicar of the family's small village. It was her country childhood that inspired her autobiography A Vicarage Family. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, beginning her career as an actress. In the 1930s, Noel began writing. Her first children's book, Ballet Shoes, was published in 1936. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1938 for The Ci...

COOK, STANLEY

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Coconino Caverns was discovered in 1927 by Walter Peck near Yampai railroad siding into the area that is called "Grand Canyon West." Grand Canyon West is managed by the Hualapai Indian Nation, Peach Springs, Arizona. Soon after being discovered the Caverns became a tourist destination. Visitors were charged $.25 to be lowered 150 feet into the cave. In 1936 the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built a wooden stairway into the caverns. Then in 1962 an elevator was installed by drill...

Enogat, John (ed.)

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Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941

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English novelist. From the description of Hugh Walpole collection, 1910-1939. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70925561 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Brackenburn, Keswick, to [James] Bain, 1931 Apr. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270658346 From the description of Sons and Lovers. A Preface : autograph manuscript signed, fair copy with a few revisions : [n.p.], 1923 June 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270658363 ...

White, W. L.

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Garnett, Richard (Lawyer)

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Calder, Nigel

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Van der Loeff, A. Rutgers

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Musil, Robert

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Valentine, C. W.

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Bullough, Sebastian

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Carrington, Noel

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Hall, J. E. D.

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David, Elizabeth, 1913-1992

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Sluckin, W.

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Hogg, Quintin.

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Lloyd, Seton.

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Bjarnhof, Karl

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Crankshaw, Edward

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Yellowlees, Henry.

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Howe, P. P.

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Karp, David

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Barclay-Smith, Phyllis

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Williams, Raymond

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O'Connor, Denis, 1934-

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Benson, E. F.

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Harrison, G. B. (Grahame Broadley)

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Young, Edward, 1683-1765

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Welwyn, Herts.], to [Samuel Richardson], 1750 Apr. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584539 Edward Young was a poet, dramatist and satirist, born at Upham near Winchester. He was the son of Edward Young, the rector of Upham, (who was later Dean of Salisbury and chaplain to William and Mary). In 1702 Young went to New College, Oxford, but moved to Corpus Christi, and then to a law fellowship at All Souls in ...

Cole, J. P. (John Peter), 1928-

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Curry, W.B.

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Jefferies, Ian

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Selden, George, 1929-1989

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Marshall, Robert

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Epithet: sea-captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x000134 Epithet: of Add MS 35730 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x00011f Epithet: of Add MS 34905 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x00011e Epithet: of Dublin ...

Bailey, H. C. (Henry Christopher), 1878-1961

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Preedy, George R.

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Thomson, David

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Epithet: of Add MS 40368 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x000186 Epithet: of Add MS 4319 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x000187 ...

Soby, James Thrall

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Fordham, Frieda.

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Miller, Webb

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Jeans, James

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Trevelyan, G. M.

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Wagner, Anthony, 1908-1995

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Epithet: KCVO, Garter King of Arms British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x0001d5 ...

Connington, J. J., 1880-1947

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Hartley, Anthon (ed.)

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Newby, Eric

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Gorer, Geoffrey

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Epithet: anthropologist and cultural theorist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x00029d ...

Wain, John

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John Barrington Wain was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1925, the son of a dentist, and educated at the High School, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Ineligible for military service because of poor eyesight, Wain went up to St John's College Oxford in 1943 to read English. His tutor, C.S. Lewis, introduced him to the conservative literary group, the Inklings, although Wain remained on its periphery. His contemporaries included Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Jennings and Kingsley Amis, with whom he was la...

Hadham, John, 1896-1981

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Haldane, J. B. S.

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Bunyan, John, 1628-1688

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Clergyman and author. From the description of Warrant of John Bunyan, 1674. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452264 Epithet: of Egerton MS 2414 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000875.0x0002cf ...

Claymore, Tod

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Frankau, Pamela

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Darnton, Christian, 1905-1981

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Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936

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Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright. Robert Cornthwaite, translator. From the description of Enrico IV: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533433 Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. From the description of Vestire gli ignudi : autograph manuscript : [Rome?, 1922?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270629221 First produced Jan. 8, 1958, at Theatre Royal, Strat...

Josephus, ...

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Rodman, Selden (ed.)

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Plato

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Simon, Oliver, 1969-

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Spain, Nancy, 1917-1964

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Roberts, Mary-Carter

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Smith, Godfrey

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Vallins, George Henry.

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Godden, Rumer, 1907-1998

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Margaret Rumer Godden Haynes-Dixon was a British writer whose works reflect her experiences in colonial India and in England and Scotland. From the description of Rumer Godden correspondence with Marshall Best, 1974-1975. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64095124 English author, poet, and children's writer; d. 1998. From the description of Rumer Godden collection, [193-]-[197-]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70925330 ...

Sykes, W. Stanley (William Stanley), 1894-1960

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Dodge, David

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Brereton, Geoffrey (ed.)

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Einzig, Paul, 1897-1973

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Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924

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Voltaire

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Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945

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English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Loughton, Essex, to W.E. Henley, 1902 Feb. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612861 Epithet: of 3 York Mansions Cavendish Sq British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x00036f ...

Tey, Josephine, 1896 or 1897-1952

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Josephine Tey (b. Elizabeth MacKintosh, 25 July 1896, Inverness, Scotland–d. 13 February 1952, London, England) was a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She also wrote as Gordon Daviot. She attended Anstey Physical Training College and taught physical training before writing. Her first published work was in The Westminster Gazette in 1925, under the name Gordon Daviot. Her best-known books were written under the name of Josephine Tey, which was the name of her great-great grandm...

Storrs, Sir Ronald

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Peacock, Thomas

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Epithet: Master of the 'Charles' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001389.0x000090 Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0001da ...

Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943

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Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), nee Potter, social reformer and diarist. Married to Sidney Webb, pioneers of social science. She was involved in many spheres of political and social activity including the Labour Party, Fabianism, social observation, investigations into poverty, development of socialism, the foundation of the National Health Service and post war welfare state, the London School of Economics, and the New Statesman . From the guide to the Beatrice Webb, A summer holiday in S...

de Mare, Eric

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Benedict, Ruth

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Stettinius, E. R., Jr.

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Monckton, C. A. W.

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Jackson, Charles

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Epithet: Rector of Bentley, county Hampshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x0000c1 ...

Hunter, Norman, 1899-1995

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Epithet: comic author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x00034b ...

Jones, H. Spencer (Harold Spencer), 1890-1960

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Mehta, Ved, 1934-

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Ved Mehta, Indian-American author of novels, family biographies, and essays, was born in 1934 in Lahore (then an Indian city, now part of Pakistan). Blind since childhood, he attended boarding schools in India and in the United States. He continued his education at Pomona College and Harvard University, eventually becoming an American citizen. Among his many writings are A Portrait of India (1970), the series of family biographies Continents of Exile (1972-1993), and the collected essays Fly and...

Guppy, Nicholas

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Atkinson, Alex; Searle, Ronald

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Williamson, Reginald Ross

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Raftery, Gerald

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Richards, J. M.

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Lehmann, John (ed.)

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Gloag, John, 1896-1981

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Cole, G. D. H. and Margaret

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Blom, Eric

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Winbolt, S. E.

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Rutherford, Douglas

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Sawyer, W W

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

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Hampden, John (ed.)

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Powell, S. W.

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Mongait, A. L.

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Lansdell, Norman.

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Cole, G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard), 1889-1959

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Epithet: Professor of Social and Political Theory Oxford University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000286 ...

Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956

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Louis Bromfield was an American author and conservationist from central Ohio who gained international recognition winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts. From the guide to the Louis Bromfield correspondence to Edna Wolfe, 1942-1949, (Ohio University) American author and conservationist. From 1939-1969 he lived and did sustainable farming at Malabar Farm, Lucas, Ohio. From the description of [Signature, 19--] / Louis Bromf...

Carter, C. O.

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Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869

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English physician and scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Thomas Smith of Tetbury, 1819 Dec. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657072 ...

Leiser, Erwin

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Warnock, G. J.

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Fortune, J. B. ; Mann, Paul B.

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Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950

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Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944

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Canadian poet, humorist, essayist, teacher and historian, Leacock was born at Wanmore, England, December 30, 1869; died at Toronto March 28, 1944. Among his many books are College Days (1923). From the description of Bell collection of Leacock papers 1913-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225405530 Canadian writer and economist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Montreal, to Mr. Glass, 1919 May 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 593956216 ...

Mellett, Lowell

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Pitman, C. R. S. (Charles Robert Senhouse), 1890-

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Baudelaire

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Ramsbottom, John

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Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958

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Rose Macaulay was born in Rugby in 1881 and educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She was a prolific writer: her first best-seller was Potterism in 1920 but she also published a biography of John Milton, and wrote verse. Her final novel, The Towers of Trezibond (1956) was especially highly regarded and created a literary sensation. She also wrote many articles for periodicals such as The Spectator and The Observer . Her correspondence with a distant cousin, the Revd. J.H.C. Johnson, was publis...

Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973

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British writer of essays, short stories, and novels. From the description of Letter to Mrs. Brownrigg [?], ca. 1930. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122570785 Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1923) was an Anglo-Irish author. Among her many novels are The last September (1929), The house in Paris (1935), The death of the heart (1938), The heat of the day (1948), A world of love (1955), and Eva Trout; or, changing scenes (1968). Her othe...

Euripides; Sophocles

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Rasmussen, Steen Eiler

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Robertson Scott, J. W. (John William), 1866-1962

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British journalist and author. From the description of Papers, 1895-1943. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20115962 ...

Wint, Guy; Calvocoressi, Peter

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Garnett, Eve

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Rothenstein, John, 1901-1992

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Rothenstein (1901-1992) was an English author and Director of the Tate Gallery. Max Beerbohm was an English essayist, caricaturist, and parodist. From the description of Letters from the Beerbohm family and other correspondents, 1905-1957. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82803710 Rothenstein (1901-1992) was an English author and Director of the Tate Gallery. From the guide to the Letters from the Beerbohm family and other correspondents, 1905-1957., (Ho...

Jenkins, Roy, 1920-2003

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Roy Jenkins, the son of a Welsh miner, won a scholarship to Oxford. During World War II he served as a codebreaker at Bletchley. After the war he joined the Labour Party. He was twice Home Secretary, was made Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1967, and on his political retirement, Chancellor of Oxford. His ideal of a united Europe made him break away from his party to help found the Social Democratic Party. He was the author of several respected political biographies. From the descripti...

MacKenzie, Kenneth, 1942-

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Epithet: JP for county Ross British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0x0000d1 Epithet: cr. Earl of Seaforth 1771 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0x0000d0 Epithet: Major -General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965

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British novelist, playwright, and short story writer, most well-known for his autobiographical novel "Of Human Bondage". From the description of Letter, signed : St. Jean-Cap Ferrat (France), to James R. Parish, Brockton, Mass. 16 June 1961. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 62718967 William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was a British author. From the description of W. Somerset Maugham letters, 1919-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652236 ...

Johnson, Pamela Hansford, 1912-1981

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Epithet: novelist, wife of C P Snow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000276 Pamela H. Johnson, the Rt. Hon. Lady Snow, was a British novelist, critic, and playwright. She married C.P. Snow in 1950 and collaborated with him on a number of plays. She was awarded the CBE in 1975. From the description of Letters to John Halperin, 1980-1981. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Ga...

Strindberg, August, 1849-1912

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Strindberg was a Swedish dramatist and novelist. From the description of Lycko Pers resa, ca. 1882. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612373374 Swedish dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dornach, to a French literary colleague, 1894 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872330 August Strindberg, playwright. Richard Greenberg, adapter. From the description of The dance of death: typescript, 200...

Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967

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Dramatist Elmer Rice was born and raised in Manhattan. Working as a file clerk, he earned a high-school equivalency diploma and entered New York Law School, passing the bar exam. He quit his job with a law firm to write plays, and within eight months his play On Trial was a critical and popular success. In a career marked by success and innovation, the prolific Rice produced socially-conscious drama as well as accessible entertainment; he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for Street Scene. He directe...

Robertson, E. Arnot (Eileen Arnot), 1903-1961

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English author Eileen Arbuthnot Robertson began making up stories in her youth to contend with competitive siblings. Her first novel, Cullum, was a success, and several well-received novels followed. Her work is frank, imaginative, idea-oriented, and witty, but notably devoid of sentiment. She also worked in the movie industry, most memorably as a radio film critic. From the description of Saint George for Merrie England, ca. 1940? (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat ...

Whitehead, A. N.

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Pearson, Harold.

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Mansfield, Peter

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ʻAṭīyah, Idwārd, 1903-1964

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Thomas a Kempis

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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

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Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980), existentialist philosopher, dramatist and novelist, author of La Nausée (1938), Huis clos (1943), and L'être et le néant (1943). From the description of Jean-Paul Sartre collection, [ca. 1950-1970]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702138367 The life of Jean-Paul Sartre, French novelist and Existentialist philosopher, has been recounted in numerous books. Of particular relevance to this collection is John Gerassi's own biographical study, Jean...

Bronowski, J.

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Punshon, E.R.

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Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson), 1888-1958

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Power, Eileen

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After study at the London School of Economics, she returned to Girton as a Pfeiffer Research Fellow 1915-1918. She was Director of Studies in History at Girton 1913-1921, Lecturer 1921-1924, Reader 1924-1931. She was appointed Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics in 1931, a position she held until her death in 1940. She lectured and published widely. In 1937, she married Michael (Munia) Postan, Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge. From th...

Joad, C. E. M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson), 1891-1953

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Epithet: philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x00037e Cyril Joad was an English philosopher. He was a conscientious objector during the First World War. He worked at the Board of Trade and Ministry of Labour for sixteen years. He was Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Birkbeck College 1930 and is also remembered for his part in the B.B.C. Brains Trust 1941-1947. From the descript...

Bunting, Brian, 1920-2008

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Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886-1967

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Son of Oscar and Constance Wilde. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Montgomery Hyde, 1953 Apr. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270974215 ...

Buchan, John

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Epithet: of Nottingham; of Add MS 43688 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000795.0x000383 ...

Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950

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Stephen Gwynn was born in 1864 in Ireland. He became a journalist in 1896 in London and an MP in Ireland 1906 to 1918 From the guide to the Stephen Gwynn collection, 1929, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) Poet, journalist, and author. From the description of Papers of Stephen Lucius Gwynn, 1896-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455167 Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was a British traveller and author. ...

Laming, Annette

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Astor, Viscount; Rowntree, B. S.

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Hammond, J. L. and Barbara

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Sterne, Laurence

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Epithet: Reverend; of Add Ch 16158 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x0001b2 Epithet: of Add MS 33964 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x0001b0 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0001b9 Epithet: Reverend; of ...

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987

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Architectural historian, critic, museum director, and influential teacher. Died 1987. From the description of Henry-Russell Hitchcock letters to Dorothy Stroud and John N. Summerson, 1946-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83551893 Architectural historian. From the description of Lectures on architecture, 1948 Jan.-May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79723075 Hitchcock (1903-1987) was an architectural historian. From the description of Henr...

Wilson, Angus, 1913-1991

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Born August 11, 1913, in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, Angus Wilson was also a short story writer, editor, critic, biographer, and playwright. Wilson was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1980 for his contributions to literature and the arts. While working at the British Museum during the 1940s Wilson began writing short stories and other short pieces, most of which were portraits of postwar Britain. He has been ranked among the best ...

Bruce, Leo, 1903-1979

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Bassett-Lowke, Janet; Roberts, Lunt

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Shonfield, Andrew, 1917-1981

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Born 1917; educated at St Paul's and Magdalen College, Oxford University; served World War Two, 1939-45, in the Royal Artillery, 1940-46; on staff, Financial Times , 1947-57; Foreign Editor, Financial Times , 1950-57; Economic Editor, The Observer , 1958-61; Director of Studies, 1961-68, Research Fellow, 1969-71, and Director, 1972-77, Royal Institute of International Affairs; Chairman, Social Science Research Council, 1969-71; Member, Royal Commission on Trade Unions, 1965-68; Member, Foreign a...

Clewes, Winston, 1906-

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Sellar, W. C. ; Yeatman, R. J.

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Powys, Llewelyn

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Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939), novelist and essayist. From the guide to the Llewelyn Powys: Copy Letters, Mid-20th century (copies of originals of 1900-1937), (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives) From the guide to the Llewelyn Powys: Commonplace Book, 1934-1935, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives) ...

Edwards, Monica, 1912-1998

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O'Faolain, Sean

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Green, Roger Lancelyn

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Roger (Gilbert) Lancelyn Green was born November 2, 1918, in Norwich, England, and died October 8, 1987, in London, England. He was an editor and anthologist, and also wrote books both for children and for adults. He edited journals on Kipling and Sherlock Holmes, assisted in editing the letters of Lewis Carroll, and translated Sophocles and Euripides. He is best known as a compiler and reteller of myths, legends, and fairy tales for children. Biographical Sources: Something About the Author, vo...

Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901-1987

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Bach

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Byrne, Donn Erwin

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Garnett, David, 1892-1981‏

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Author and publisher David Garnett was born in Brighton; his mother was a translator, his father a literary adviser, and he grew up in a literary environment. He studied botany at the Royal College of Science, and after graduation went into publishing. He became book critic for New Statesman, and wrote several popular novels, some fantasy and some with realistic themes. He has also written several volumes of memoirs, and edited works by T.E. Lawrence and Thomas Love Peacock. From the...

Walter, Richard (Pack, S. W. C. ed.)

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Read, John E. (John Erskine), 1888-1973

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Epithet: Collector of Customs at Cowes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000877.0x000127 Epithet: of Add MS 36048 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000877.0x00012d Epithet: High Sheriff of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000877.0x000128 Ep...

Herbert, S. Mervyn

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Pemberton, W. Baring (William Baring), 1897-

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Cole, Sonia Mary.

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Janes, E. R.

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Alexander, Isabel

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Postgate, Raymond, 1896-1971

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Raymond William Postgate (1896-1971) was educated at Oxford University. A conscientious objector, disinherited by his father for his views, he was arrested and court-martialled, but later released due to ill health. From the guide to the Raymond Postgate papers, 1914-1990, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Born in Cambridge, Great Britain 1896, died in Great Britain 1971; journalist, author on labour and radical history; attracted to Guild socialism; one of the first conscie...

Glover, T. R. (Thomas Reginald)

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Yeats-Brown, F.

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Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935

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Thomas Edward Lawrence, archaeologist, soldier, and author, popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, was born at Tremadoc, North Wales, on August 15, 1888, the second of five sons. His father, Thomas Robert Chapman, and his mother, Sarah Maden, assumed the name of Lawrence. The family was raised in comfort by private means. Lawrence learned to read at a very early age by observing his older brother being taught to read. At the age of four he read newspapers and books, at six he began the study ...

Mahan, Captain A. T.

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Kornitzer, Louis

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Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958

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Richmond author James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) is best known for his controversial book, Jurgen (1919), a fantasy set in Cabell's mythical medieval world of Poictesme (pronounced Pwa-tem). The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice contended the book was obscene. A trial over its content brought the reclusive writer national fame. Throughout the 1920s, Cabell's literary peers, including H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, praised his works. Cabell was born April 14, 1879, at 101 E. Frank...

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855

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Charlotte Brontë (b. April 21, 1816, Thornton, Yorkshire, England–d. March 31, 1855, Haworth, Yorkshire, England), English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters. She first published her works, including Jane Eyre, under the pen name Currer Bell....

Carter, Edward

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Hartley, L. P.

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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...

Rothstein, Andrew

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Epithet: socialist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000197 ...

Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

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Lawyer and author. From the description of Richard Henry Dana correspondence, 1843-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449368 Author and lawyer Richard Henry Dana was the privileged son of an aristocratic Massachusetts family. Taking time from Harvard because of medical problems, he went to sea, where his experiences as a sailor inspired him to write Two Years Before the Mast. A sea story that was part memoir and part social commentary, the novel proved to be popular with...

Fordham, Paul

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Newton, Eric

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Bingham, Joseph, 1668-1723

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Epithet: MP for county Dorset British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x0001c7 Epithet: Assistant Surgeon, Royal Artillery British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x0001c6 Title: Baron Clanmorris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x0001ca ...

Barrow, R.H. (Reginald Haynes), 1893-

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Williamson, Henry

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Epithet: horse-thief British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x0000cd Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0003dc Henry Williamson (1895-1977), writer, was born in south London and educated at Colfe's Grammar School, Lewisham. He fought in the army in the First World War and gained a deep sens...

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930

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British author, best known for his stories about detective Sherlock Holmes. From the description of Letter : South Norwood, to Major Pond, 1894 May 31. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 57008581 English physician, novelist and detective-story writer. From the description of Papers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [manuscript], 1893-1985 (bulk 1893-1927). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816353 Doyle was an English mystery writer perh...

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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Hawkes, Christopher and Jacquetta

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Scott, David

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Epithet: Historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x00000b Epithet: Chaplain of Haberdashers' Aske's School British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x0002ef Epithet: JP for Co. Suss British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x00000c Epith...

Blondel, J.

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Ecclestone, Eric

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Jones, Gwyn

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Stephenson, E. M. ; Stewart, C.

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Potter, Margaret and Alexander

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Kropotkin, P

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Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893

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French author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Monsieur Bourgeois, [1891] Oct. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270845062 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to [Victorien Sardou], 1887 July 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270845048 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified woman, [1884]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270845059 From the description of Autograph letter si...

Lea, Tom

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Bell, Adrian, 1902-1980

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Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992

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Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was an American avant garde writer and poet. She lived in San Francisco, Newark, Delaware, and Rowayton, Connecticut, when she wrote these letters. From the description of Kay Boyle letters and poems, 1935-1975. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 33890909 Kay Boyle was an American essayist, novelist, short-story writer, translator, essayist, and translator. From the description of Kay Boyle collection of papers, 1...

Whyte, William H.

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Travers, Ben.

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Keane, Richard (ed.)

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Treece, Henry, 1911-1966

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Spear, Percival

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Hargreaves, F. J.

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Doorly, Eleanor.

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Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975

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English biologist. From the description of Typed letter signed : London, to Mr. Heineman, 1928 Feb. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555836 British biologist, philosopher, and popularizer of science; b. Julian Sorell Huxley. From the description of Papers, 1899-1980. (Rice University). WorldCat record id: 86118827 From the description of Julian Sorell Huxley papers, 1899-1980. (Rice University). WorldCat record id: 28418189 Jul...

Kneale, Nigel

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Bacharach, A. L. (ed.)

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Tanner, Lawrence

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Bowlby, John

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Knight, Laura

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Golding, Louis

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Thirkell, Angela

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Gibbons, Stella, 1902-1989

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English author, critic, and journalist. From the description of Stella Gibbons collection, [19--]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70961676 Gibbons was an English novelist, poet and short story writer. She is particularly remembered for her novel Cold comfort farm. From the description of [Letter] 1944 Oct. 21, 19 Oakeshott Avenue, Highgate, London, N.6, [to Margot] Johnson / Stella Gibbons (stella Bourne Webb). (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 22703...

Lucan

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Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x000080 Aldous Huxley was a British novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary and social critic, and poet. From the description of Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 1915-1973 bulk (1915-1963). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517267 From the guide to the Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 19...

White, Ethel Lina

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Capote, Truman, 1924-1984

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED American author. From the guide to the Truman Capote ephemera Collection, 1949-1988., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Truman Capote (1924- ), American author. From the description of Truman Capote papers, 1939-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476609 Truman Capote is an American writer. From the description of Truman Capote fonds. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 667848368...

Williams, Ursula Moray

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Created by Ursula Moray Williams during the course of her career as a children's writer, from the 1930s to the 1990s. From the guide to the Ursula Moray Williams Collection, c 1930-2003, (Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books) ...

Gilbert, Anthony

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Herbert, David (compiler)

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Thorne, Anthony.

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Anderson, M. D. (Mary Désirée), 1902-1973

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Searle, Ronald, 1920-2011

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Zweig, Ferdynand, 1896-1988

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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

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Franz Kafka (b. July 3, 1883, Prague, Czech Republic–d. June 3, 1924, Klosterneuburg, Austria) was a novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absur...

Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950

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Italian/British novelist. From the description of The Sea-Hawk : typescript : [England?], [ca. 1914]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270635282 Rafael Sabatini was born in Jesi, Italy, on April 29, 1875, to opera singers Vincenzo and Anna Sabatini. Educated in Switzerland and Portugal, Sabatini was fluent in several languages; however, his mother, herself English, saw to it that English was his most natural tongue. After spending most of his young life traveling ...

Marquand, John P. (John Phillips), 1893-1960

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Marquand was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his novels of upper class New England life and for his stories of the fictional detective Mr. Moto. From the description of Correspondence, 1892-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122468968 From the description of Compositions, 1892-1951. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83157834 From the guide to the John Phillips Marquand correspondence, 1892-1960., (Houghton Library, Har...

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683

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Gordon, Jan and Cora

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Duchess of Atholl

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Bott, Alan, 1893-1952

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Whitman, Walt

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), noted American poet, essayist, and journalist, was author of Leaves of Grass in which the poem "Spirit that Form'd this Scene" appears beginning in 1881. Writing in 1902, Oscar Lovell Triggs notes that Leaves of Grass developed over time, beginning with its first appearance in 1855 (see Oscar Lovell Triggs, "The Growth of "Leaves of Grass," The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman (1902), 101-21). Triggs notes that the poems of every edition were written on th...

Baron, Stanley Wade

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Baldwin, Earl

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Connell, Vivian, 1903-

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Joly, Cyril

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Canaway, W. H

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Faber, G. C. (Geoffrey Cust), 1889-1961

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Taylor, Eric, 1927-

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Weyman, Stanley J.

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Gardner, Helen (ed.)

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Laver, James

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Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795

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Sir Joseph Banks was an English naturalist and president of the Royal Society. From the guide to the Sir Joseph Banks papers, 1766-1820 (bulk), 1766-1820, (American Philosophical Society) English potter. From the description of Letter in autograph of Alexander Chisholm, signed : Etruria, to Thomas Wedgwood, 1787 Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270589238 Epithet: of Add MS 35536 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Perso...

Aitken, James

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Williams, W. E. (ed.)

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Edelman, Maurice, 1911-1975

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Kay, George (ed.)

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Milligan, Mike

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Wintringham, Tom, 1898-1949

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Young, William, Sir, 1725?-1788

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James, Henry

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x00012f Epithet: Baron James of Hereford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000331 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000361 Epithet: Capta...

Newnham, Richard (ed.)

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Boyd, Andrew

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Sansom, William, 1912-1976

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William Sansom was a British writer of novels, short stories, travel literature, children's literature, biographies, essays, and film scripts. From the description of William Sansom collection of papers, 1926-1972. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122378637 From the guide to the William Sansom collection of papers, 1926-1972, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) English short-story wr...

Messant, Claude J. W.

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Watson, George

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Epithet: Commissioner of Excise British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x00010f Epithet: Reverend; Fellow of University College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x000115 Epithet: President of the Scottish Academy British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vd...

Lamb, Harold, 1892-1962