Literary criticism
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Anthony Barnett Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10056
Scope and Contents
Literary correspondence and papers concerning Barnett's work as a poet, critic, editor and publisher.
Dates:
1960-2016 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charleston Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA
Scope and Contents
The collection of Charleston papers contains mainly the correspondence of Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant which had accumulated at their home, Charleston Farm House. In 1965 the papers were sorted by Professor Quentin Bell and were deposited in King's College Library by Professor Bell and Mrs Angelica Garnett. Two sets of photocopies of some of the papers were made by the College at the time of deposit, one set to be kept by the College and the other set by Professor Bell. The set...
Dates:
1869 - 1964
File
Copies of typescript documents on Virgil and Horace by H. A. Mason, given by him to a student, 1970 - 1985
File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/MAS/7
Scope and Contents
Includes: (a) copy of a typescript Introduction to a book on Virgil's 'Aeneid' and the history of its translation from Latin into English, from the 16th to 18th centuries (c.100 xerox pages, plus an additional 10 xeroxed pages, possibly a talk on Virgil); (b) a small book on Horace's 'Beatus ille' ode (bound xeroxed booklet of 103 pages. (Neither believed to be in print). Dates of original typescript documents unclear. Contains handwritten annotations, probably made by a reader for an...
Dates:
1970 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Sensitive letters removed to closed file.
Fonds
Edward Rose: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9526
Scope and Contents
The surviving correspondence contains many letters from actors, actresses and theatre managers, about current productions for the London stage, and for tours in the provinces. A few letters mention the production of Rose's plays in the USA. There are letters from hopeful authors offering their novels for dramatization, from people agreeing or declining to lecture to the Playgoers' Club, and from friends wanting theatre tickets. Two owners of stately homes (Lord Barnard and Lord Donington)...
Dates:
1880-1904 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Francisco Xavier Alegre: 'Arte poetica de M. Boileau'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10424
Scope and Contents
A translation into Castilian verse by Francisco Xavier Alegre of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, 'L'Art Poétique', with a dedicatory epistle to a disciple of the translator.
Dates:
c. 1780
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Holbrook Jackson Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10423
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, typescript and printed papers of and relating to Holbrook Jackson. The collection includes: letters to Jackson from Edward Carpenter (three, 1911-1916), G. C. Williamson (one, 1927), George Underwood (one, 1927), Marley Denwood (one, 1931), and Eric A. McDonald (one, 1950 -- apparently addressed to Jackson posthumously); letters and postcards from Holbrook Jackson to his brother John Charles Jackson (1901-1948); postcards from Holbrook Jackson to other members of his family,...
Dates:
1901-1950
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Humphrey Jennings Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10097
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the academic and literary papers of Humphrey Jennings, for the most part dating to his time as a postgraduate researcher at Cambridge in the early 1930s. The papers consist of draft writings and notes on Thomas Gray, the main focus of Jennings's research, and on other areas of research interest including plagiarism and literary borrowings, Christopher Marlowe's 'Tamburlaine' and Renaissance literature. The papers include material gathered by Jennings for his...
Dates:
1929-late 20th century; bulk 1929-1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ian Brinton: Literary and academic correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10321
Scope and Contents
Correspondence to and from Ian Brinton concerning poetry and poets, with related items.
Dates:
1996-2017
Conditions Governing Access:
With the exception of one file (MS Add.10321/4) the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Partridge: The Papers of Frances Catherine Partridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP
Scope and Contents
This collection contains typescript and manuscript diaries, lectures, philosophy notes, correspondence, photographs, printed copies of book reviews, articles and obituaries. Many of the diaries exist only in typescript form, but in later years the only copies are in manuscript. Letters to her husband, Ralph Partridge, are included in this collection. In addition to her own photograph albums, there are two albums which belonged to Dora Carrington and two which belonged to Lytton Strachey,...
Dates:
1905 - 2004
Fonds
Personal Papers of Odette de Mourgues, 1928 - 1991
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP de Mourgues
Scope and Contents
The papers of Odette de Mourgues listed here include correspondence; drafts of some written work (published and unpublished); lectures; and a miscellany of research papers and personal records.
Dates:
1928 - 1991
Found in:
Girton College Archive
/
Personal Papers
Fonds
Personal Papers of Q D Leavis, 1895 - 2017
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Leavis
Scope and Contents
Girton College holds some personal papers of Q D Leavis, together with Leavis related papers accumulated by members of her family (chiefly her daughter, Kate Varney), and papers acquired from other sources, including former students and friends of Q D Leavis, because of Q D Leavis' early connection with Girton College. All of these papers have been gathered under the heading of Q D Leavis for ease of reference. She is referred to throughout the catalogue as Q D Leavis as she was known as...
Dates:
1895 - 2017
Found in:
Girton College Archive
/
Personal Papers
Fonds
Preston: Papers of Raymond Preston
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/PRE
Dates:
1893 - 1990
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, unless otherwise marked.
Found in:
Downing College
Sub-Series
Published works, 1951 - 1973
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/PRE/1/5
Scope and Contents
Offprints from journals and book
Dates:
1951 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Open, unless otherwise marked.
File
Sir Edmund Gosse: Review of Parini's The Epic of the Beau
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6618
Scope and Contents
A review of H.M. Bower's translation of G. Parini's The epic of the beau by Sir Edmund Gosse, an article for the Sunday times of 15 April 1928, 11 folios. At the beginning is a letter from the donor, P. Gosse, to the University Librarian, 26 April 1929.
Dates:
1928-1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
(William) Sidney Walker: Correspondence, miscellaneous verses and other papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5942
Scope and Contents
The letters which form the bulk of the material catalogued here, were written by Sidney Walker over a quarter of a century to several female relations: principally, his mother (who after her husband's death lived at various addresses in London and its suburbs); his mother's sister Maria, who had married William Walker, a solicitor at Thirsk in the North Riding (and probably a brother or cousin of Sidney's father); and his unmarried cousin Margaret, a daughter of Maria Walker. The letters,...
Dates:
1809-1839
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library