Literary criticism
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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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:
1960-2010 (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
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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
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