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English Literature36
Brotherton Collection33
Feminist Archive North2
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Knight, W F Jackson2
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Knight, G Wilson (1897-1985)2
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Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1
Read, Piers Paul (1941-)1
Ross, Alan (1922-2001)1
Rushforth, Peter Scott (1945-2005)1
Sala, George Augustus (1828-1895)1
Read, Lady Margaret Ludwig (1905-1996)1

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Archive Collection

Archive Collection

Graham Greene, drafts of two novels with literary contracts and film rights

Greene, Graham (1904-1991)

1935-1980

(1) A series of versions of Greene's late novel 'Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party', including a complete signed autograph manuscript, a series of TS versions with MS corrections, proofs, and...

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Barbara Taylor Bradford Archive

Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)

c.1940-2019

Includes typecript copies of her novels, some with manuscript annotations, printers' proofs, published novels, press cuttings and magazines featuring articles about Taylor Bradford, papers relating to...

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Glyn Hughes, literary papers with related material

Hughes, Glyn

1975-1999

Comprises: (1) 39 autograph manuscript notebooks containing many drafts of Glyn Hughes' poems, research notes for novels, and numerous personal notes, partly dated between ca. 1979 and 1999, with so...

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Angela Thirkell Archive

Thirkell, Angela Margaret

1895-2004

Comprises: (1) 12 boxes of material catalogued by David Gilson, namely, autograph manuscript notebooks containing drafts of the novels 'Love among the Ruins', 'The Old Bank House', 'Morning, afternoo...

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William Black, The Penance of John Logan

Black, William (1841-1898)

1887

Manuscript copy, autograph, of his novel "The Penance of John Logan", which was first published in 1889. The novel is written on the recto side of each leaf of the volume in a small, condensed hand in...

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Arthur Stanley Turberville notebooks and papers

Turberville, Arthur Stanley (1888-1945)

c.1907-1945

Comprises: (1)-(4) Draft of 'Medieval Heresy and the Inquisition' [published 1920]; (5)-(8) Notes on the Inquisition; (9)-(11) Draft of 'The Spanish Inquisition' [published 1932]; (12)-(16) Notes on B...

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Keown (Anna Gordon), literary papers with related material, including some correspondence

Keown, Anna Gordon (1902-)

1934-1959

Comprises: (1) Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of some of Anna Gordon Keown's literary works, including at least 9 short stories or plays, dated ca. 1948-1955, and held in a red folder; at ...

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Clement K Shorter Archive

Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)

1893-1927

Comprises: 31 boxes of correspondence with various people (the largest number of letters are from Edmund Gosse, Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards, and Augustine Birrell); and bound volumes as follows: ...

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Cath Jackson

20th century

Lesbian novels and Pamphlets

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Dennis Wheatley Archive

Wheatley, Dennis (1897-1977)

c.1820-1977

Box No 1 i) Financial correspondence & memos, draft tenancy agreements (c.1900-1936) ii) Roadmap of Belgium, Picture Show magazine, brochures, pamphlets, cuttings, children's artwork (magazine Decem...

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Elizabeth North Archive

1980-2002

Includes typescript drafts of Elizabeth North's novels, short stories, plays, articles, and poems, manuscript notes, manuscript journals, correspondence, teaching materials and reviews of North's work...

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