Gawsworth (Armstrong)/Shiel/Redonda papers, 1928-1971.

Meynell, Viola Mary Gertrude, 1885-1956

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Viola Mary Gertrude Meynell, often called Prue or Prudie by her family, was born on October 15, 1885 in London, Enlgland, to Wilfrid and Alice (Thompson) Meynell. Viola grew up with six brothers and a sister, in the literary environment of the Meynell household whose family friends included authors George Meredith, Coventry Patmore, and Francis Thompson. Viola was given a Catholic education at the Convent of Our Lady of Sion in London. More than the rest of her siblings, Viola aspired to becom...

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

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Hipwell, Reg.

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Lindsay, Jack, 1900-1990

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Poet, dramatist, editor, historian, translator, classicist, biographer, novelist and critic. Author of over 100 books. Born and raised in Australia, Lindsay migrated to England in 1926, where he co-founded the Fanfrolico Press with Jack Kirtley and P.R. Stephenson. From the description of Letters from Jack Lindsay to Mary McLean [manuscript]. 1937-1939. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224057056 From the description of Papers of Jack Lindsay, [1942?]-1983 [manuscri...

Kirkup, James, 1918-2009

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James Kirkup (1918 - ) was born in South Shields, County Durham and educated at Durham University. The travel writer, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, and broadcaster has authored over thirty works. Kirkup became the first Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University (1950-1952). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature (1962). From the description of James Kirkup poems (MS 20), ca. 1942-1956. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 255131964 Fro...

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...

Nevinson, Henry Woodd, 1856-1941

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Epithet: journalist and author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000004 ...

Blakeston, Oswell

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English artist and writer. From the description of Papers, 1927-1985. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122365919 Oswell Blakeston, artist and writer, was born Henry Joseph Hasslacher on May 17, 1907. His professional life began in the British film industry in which he worked as a camera boy at the Gaumont Studios along with David Lean. This apprenticeship was followed by an editorial position wit...

MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978

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C. M. (Christopher Murray) Grieve [Hugh McDiarmid, 1892-1978] was a Scottish poet, writer, and cultural activist. Politically, he was both a nationalist, helping found the National Party of Scotland in 1928, and a communist. During the 1930's, he was expelled from each group for his membership in the other. His nationalist leanings were, for a time, characterized by pre-Reformation Catholic Scotland "as a model of social, spiritual, and national coherence." (Roderick Watson, ODNB). Grieve founde...

Evans, Caradoc, 1878-1945

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Gannon, P.

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Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), 1883-1971

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St. John Greer Ervine had a long and influential career in the theatre. Born to deaf-mute Protestant parents in a suburb of Belfast, he moved to London in 1900 where he worked as a clerk and became active in the Fabian Society. An accomplished writer of realistic plays, his work first appeared in 1911, and he enjoyed considerable success, leading to his long friendship with George Bernard Shaw and the opportunity to manage the Abbey Theatre in 1915-1916. He joined the army in 1916, was wounded i...

Maas, Henry.

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Butler, Lord

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MacCarthy, Desmond, 1877-1952

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Sir (Charles Otto) Desmond MacCarthy, English literary reviewer and drama critic. From the description of Desmond MacCarthy manuscript material : 1 item, 1950 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 726886322 From the guide to the Desmond MacCarthy manuscript material : 1 item, 1950, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Desmond's first experience as an editor was with New Quarterly and then Eye Witness (late...

Pinero, Arthur Wing, 1855-1934

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British playwright and actor. From the description of Letters, 1899-1903 : to F.A. Besant Rice. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34363756 British actor and writer; member of the Garrick Club. From the description of Letter written to Sir George Henschel, 1906. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122386412 Pinero was an English dramatist. From the description of Papers concerning The ...

Sinclair, May, 1870-1946

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May Sinclair (1863-1946) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer. From the description of May Sinclair collection of papers, 1901-1928. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122313924 Epithet: Miss author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x000072 ...

Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974

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Blunden was an English poet and scholar. From the description of Edmund Blunden papers, 1921-1952 (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612727624 Edmund Blunden, English poet and university teacher. His highly acclaimed biography of Shelley was published in 1946. From the description of Edmund Blunden manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1945-1955 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76945001 From the guide to the Edmund Blunden manuscript ma...

Pudney, John, 1909-1977

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British poet, novelist, and editor. From the description of Papers, 1850-1977 (bulk 1926-1976). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122692658 John Sleigh Pudney, British poet, novelist, editor, and journalist was born on January 19, 1909, in Langley, Buckinghamshire, England. The only son of Henry William Pudney and Mabel Sleigh Pudney, he was reared in the country, but was sent away for his educati...

Clarkson, G. Austin Elliot (George Austin Elliot), 1932-

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Jacobs, W.W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943

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English short story writer. From the description of William Wymark Jacobs letters, [ca. 1900]-1943. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 496102616 English author of sea stories. From the description of The boatswain's watch : autograph manuscript signed of the short story, 1896 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269550203 ...

Weekes, Charles, 1867-1946

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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...

Lynd, Sylvia

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Henderson, Archibald (1837-1927).

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Gibbon, Monk, 1896-1987

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Irish author Monk Gibbon produced a diverse and eclectic body of work, including poems, travel books, novels, biography, and several volumes of autobiography. He knew Yeats, and is best known for his unflattering portrayal of the Irish poet in his study, The Masterpiece and the Man, Yeats as I Knew Him, which generated a storm of controversy. He also taught in England, Ireland, Wales, and Switzerland. From the description of Monk Gibbon letter to Ellis Roberts and printed ballad, 193...

Bullett, Gerald, 1893-1958

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Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson, 1878-1962

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Poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was born and raised in northern England; he was home schooled and never attended college, and was considered mild and reclusive. A prolific poet, his verse evolved over time; his early work was inspired by Tennyson, while his mature poems were direct and dramatic. He was often associated with the Georgian movement, distinguished by realism and sentimentality. Many of his later poems show a social awareness, focussing on the working class and commonplace experiences. He...

Durrell, Lawrence

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Lawrence George Durrell was born Feb. 27, 1912 in Julundur, India; the son of British parents, he grew up in India and spent his young adult years in England; he held many odd jobs such as jazz pianist, automobile racer, real estate agent, instructor, and press attaché; moved to France and became a full time writer in 1957; of his various publications, Durrell is best known for the Alexandria quartet, a tetralogy with titles, Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea which appeared between 1957 ...

Dickens, Monica, 1915-1992

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Swingler, Randall.

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Church, Richard, 1893-1972

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

Thomas, Edward, 1813-1886

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Megroz, Phyllis.

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Stephens, James

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James Stephens was a coal merchant operating in the Bronx. His son, Olin J. Stephens, joined the business in 1878 and later became the president of the New York Coal Merchants Association. From the description of James Stephens account books, 1850-1893. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 774034088 Epithet: DMed., Secretary to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000...

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 1863-1944

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who published under the name Q. His major work is Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900. From the guide to the Fiat Justitia, Ruat Solum, undated, (Ohio University) Author, educator, and literary critic. From the description of Correspondence and literary manuscripts, 1888-1944 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 24560980 British writer. From the description of Autograp...

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_...

Gould, Gerald, 1885-1936

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x000227 Noted English journalist, reviewer and poet. From the description of Gerald Gould letter to Miss Blodgett [manuscript], 1921 December 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 664830255 ...

Macaulay, Rose, Dame.

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George, Daniel P.

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Murray, John

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Epithet: of Bowhill, Lord of Session British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0002a8 ...

Heath-Stubbs, John, 1918-2006

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x00012b John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs, the poet, was born in London in 1918 and educated at Worcester College for the Blind and The Queen's College, Oxford; he published his first poems in the wartime volume, Eight Oxford Poets . He was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University between 1952 and 1955, then taught in foreign universities for several...

Bottrall, Ronald, 1906-

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O'Sullivan, Seumas, 1879-1958

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James Starkey (1879-1958), better known as Seumas O'Sullivan, was an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin magazine. From the description of Letters to Seumas O'Sullivan, 1904-1950. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228718402 Seumas O'Sullivan was the pseudonym of Irish writer James Sullivan Starkey. He was also founding editor of the "Dublin Magazine". William Kirkpatrick Magee (1868-1961) was an Irish writer who wrote under th...

O'Riodan, Conal O'Connell, 1874-1948.

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Childe, Wilfred Rowland, 1890-1952

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Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890-1952), the English Catholic poet and lecturer in English literature at the University of Leeds from 1922 until his death. For fuller details of his life and achievements, see Who was who, Vol.5. From the guide to the Literary manuscripts, correspondence, and publications of Wilfred Rowland Childe, with material relating to him, ca. 1920-1998, (Leeds University Library) Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890-1952) was lecturer in English at the University o...

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 ...

Roberts, Michael, 1908-1996

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Koehler, Thomas H.

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Angus, Marion.

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Watt, S. M.

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Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington), 1866-1938

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Balchin, Nigel, 1908-1970

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Nicoll, Theodore.

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Maclaren, Hamish, 1901-

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Whitaker, Malachi, 1895-1975

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Pitter, Ruth, 1897-1992

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Poet. From the description of Papers of Ruth Pitter, 1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 76960556 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000349 Ruth Pitter was a British poet and artist. She began writing poetry at an early age, and published numerous volumes, to the delight of her small but loyal following. Her style was traditional, and she was easily overlooked by the pu...

Child, Harold H.

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Lucas, E.V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938

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English essayist, playwright, and biographer of Charles Lamb. From the description of Friendship's gallery : AMs, [before 1930] / by E.V. Lucas. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122525226 From the description of Facets & angles : AMs, [between 1918 and 1930] / by E.V. Lucas. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591792 Edward Verrall Lucas was an English author and editor. A remarkably prolific writer, he produced novels, ...

Waller, John Stanier, Sir, 1917-

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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...

Dyment, Clifford, 1914-1970

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Clifford Dyment was born in Derbyshire, England and attended school in Lougborough. He came to London in his twenties having published his first book of poems, First day (1935) and pursued a professional writing career. He worked as a free-lance literary journalist and critic (1934-40); a script writer/director for documentary and military training films (1941-48); and a free-lance writer and broadcaster. Dyment has published several books of poetry including; The axe in the wood (1944) and Coll...

Mégroz, R. L. (Rodolphe Louis), 1891-1968

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Mottram, R. H. (Ralph Hale), 1883-1971

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British banker, novelist, and general writer. From the description of Letter, 1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122598497 From the description of Letters, 1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122630411 From the guide to the R.H. Mottram letters, 1909, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) From the guide to the R. H. Mottram letter, 1943, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) English novelist. From the description of Letter, 1947. (Unknown)...

Bax, Clifford, 1886-1962

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Clifford Bax was a diverse and talented writer, prolific and opinionated, perhaps best known for his verse plays. Born into an affluent family, Bax was greatly influenced by reading traditional English poets in his teens. He also developed an interest in mysticism, and later in Buddhism and Platonistic theories, all of which influenced his work and worldview; although he became a successful playwright, poet, novelist, critic, editor, and biographer, the mystical ideals espoused in his works coup...

Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997

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Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900-1997), English novelist, essayist, literary critic, and writer of short stories and travel literature. From the description of V.S. Pritchett collection, 1979-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79462983 Epithet: Knight; author and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x000271 Victor Sawdon Pritchett was an English novelist, biographer, essayist, lite...

Mathers, E. Powys (Edward Powys), 1892-1939

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Shanks, Edward, 1892-1953

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Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936

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Sir Owen Seamen was born in London and had a reputation as a poet and humorist, especially noted for his parodies of other poets. He was briefly a professor of literature at Durham. He joined the staff of Punch in 1897, became sub-editor in 1902, and editor-in-chief in 1906. He published several collections of his poems and essays, including Interludes of an editor, 1929. From the description of Owen Seaman letters and clipping of photograph, 1909-1934. (Pennsylvania State University...

Vanden Bemde, John

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Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946

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English author and editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : West Hampstead, to Victor Plarr, [no year] Feb. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617349 The author was head of a Welsh organization, "Undeb Cymdeithasan Diwylliadd Cymreig Llundain" (letterhead reads : "Tymhor, 1902-1903".) Members included David Lloyd George. With this is filed a typed letter of transmittal from Louttit to Damon (Nov. 8, 1935). From the description of Letter, 1903, ...

Thorley, Wilfrid C. (Wilfrid Charles), 1878-

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Grieve, Valda Trevlyn, 1906-1989

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Bowes-Lyon, Lilian Helen, 1895-1949

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Fletcher, Ian F.

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Parslow, Barbara.

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Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps), 1865-1947

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Matthew Phipps Shiel began life in the West Indies of Irish parentage and later studied languages and medicine in London, before the appearance of his first book Prince Zaleski, in 1895. He subsequently wrote over thirty novels including such classic works as The Lord of the Sea, The Yellow Danger, How the Old Woman Got Home, and his science fiction masterpiece, The Purple Cloud. From the description of Children of the wind, ca. 1922. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldC...

Smith, Samuel

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Epithet: Curate of Wye, county Kent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x000195 Epithet: son of W Smith MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000757.0x00038f ...

James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936

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English biblical scholar and paleographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : the Lodge, Eton College, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1934 Nov. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269541178 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : the Lodge, Eton College, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1933 Aug. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269541187 ...

Stead, Philip John

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Cornford, Frances Darwin, 1886-1960

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, [1925] Oct. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517944 British poet Frances Cornford (1886–1960) was descended from a number of Cambridge intellectuals, including Charles Darwin and William Wordsworth. Her work was influenced by both the Georgian and modernist forms of poetry. She experimented with a variety of forms...

Fytton, Francis

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Jepson, Edgar, 1863-1938

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Lucas, F. L. (Frank Laurence), 1894-1967

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Hamilton, G. Rostrevor (George Rostrevor), 1888-1967

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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...

Greacen, Robert

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Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982

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English novelist; Brown class of 1907. From the description of Papers, 1953-1968. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122615539 Swinnerton, a literary critic, editor, and author, was born in London and worked as an office boy and later as an editor for publishers. He began writing the first of his more than forty novels and twenty books of criticism in 1909. He was literary critic for the Evening news and The Observer. Swinnerton is best known for his novels, including N...

Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Woodford, to Arthur Moore, [1889] Feb. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 503569952 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Woodford, to Arthur Moore, Thursday night [1889 Jan. 3]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 502162746 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Woodford], to Arthur Moore, 1889 Sept. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 506340681 From the description of Autogra...

Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881-1965

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Author. From the description of Correspondence, 1918-1939. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36254207 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000757.0x000200 ...

Guedalla, Philip, 1889-1944

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Philip Guedalla was born on 12 March 1889 in London. He received his education from Rugby School and Balliol College Oxford, where he became President of the Oxford Union in 1911. Between 1913 to 1923 Guedalla served as a Barrister at the Inner Temple, London. During the First World War, 1914-1918, he served as a legal adviser to the Contracts Department of the War Office and Ministry of Munitions. From 1917 to 1920 he organised and became secretary of the Flax Control Board. He stood for parlia...

Naylor, John F.

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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...

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...

Pedley, C. St. J.,

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Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970

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English poet and journal editor. From the description of Twilights (For W.W.G.) : autograph manuscript of the poem signed : Letchworth, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132699 Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong was born on June 29, 1912 in Kensington, London, England; attended Manor House School, Sussex and Linton House School and Merchant Taylors' School, London; became Freeman of the City of London, and of Merchant Taylors' Company, London, 1935; coordinator of Neo-Geo...

Hipwell, Mabel.

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Lynd, Robert, 1879-1949

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British authors. From the description of Robert and Sylvia Lynd collection, 1904-1949. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 122503025 ...

Meyerstein, Edward Harry William, 1889-1952

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Edward Harry William Meyerstein was an English scholar, author, and man of letters. He was born in London and educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge. He worked in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, and served in World War I. After the war he turned to writing full-time, producing poetry, translations, plays, fiction, music criticism, and biography; he was perhaps best known for his life of Thomas Chatterton. Elements of his personal life were sometimes controversial and uncomp...

Thompson, E.A.

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Plomer, William, 1903-1973

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

Marshall, Arthur

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Epithet: alias Featherstone; contributor to the magazine 'London Society' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x0003bb English novelist and writer of non-fiction. From the description of Letter : Twickenham, Middlesex, to Father [Alban] Wheeler, [ca. 1965] Apr. 23. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122453193 ...

Leslie, Shane, 1885-1971

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Irish poet, novelist, travel writer, biographer, and Catholic apologist; born John Randolph Shane Leslie. From the description of Poems : AMsS : [Glaslough, Ireland?], [ca. 1920]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122690113 Author and statesman Sir Shane Leslie was born John Randolph Leslie in London, raised in Ireland, and educated at Oxford, where he converted to Roman Catholicism and adopted the Irish form of his name, Shane, when he became interested ...

Richards, Paul C.

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Student of Mormon history at Brigham Young University. From the description of Experiences of the Josiah Rhead family in the Martin handcart company of 1856, 1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122425043 ...

Deeping, Warwick, 1877-1960.

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Magee, William Kirkpatrick

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Visiak, E. H. (Edward Harold)

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Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003

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Kathleen Raine was born in London, her father was a schoolmaster, and the family strict Methodists. She was sent to stay with an aunt in rural Northumberland for the duration of World War I, an idyllic childhood period she later recalled in 'Farewell Happy Fields' (1973). She was educated at Ilford County High School and came to Girton as an Exhibitioner to read Natural Sciences then Moral Sciences 1926-29. While she was at Cambridge she began writing poetry and also made long-term friendships w...

Jacob, Violet, 1863-1946

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