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Brotherton Collection Charters
1280-1850
These documents were acquired for the Brotherton Collection in the 1980s by Wendy Childs, Emeritus Professor in Later Medieval History at the University of Leeds, for the purposes of teaching palaeogr...
Novello Cowden Clarke
1739-1966
The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...
Marshall Family, correspondence with various literary personalities
Marshall Family
c.1852-1881
Members of the Marshall Family named in the correspondence include the following:-(1) Julia O'Brien; (2) Edward O'Brien; (3) Nellie O'Brien; (4) Mary Marshall; (5) James Marshall, 1802-1873; (6) Aubre...
Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence
Brontë Family
1812-1925
A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...
George Byron, correspondence and manuscripts, together with related materials
Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)
c.1811-1938
Comprises a collection of autograph poetry, letters and other writings by Byron; manuscripts of his poetry and other writings in the hand of others (including Mary Shelley), including copies of his 'E...
Edmund Gosse Archive
Gosse family
c.1823-1954
The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...
John Hodgson Archive
Hodgson, John (1927-1997)
1891-2001
Comprises Hodgson's own papers as well as a collection of Alan Ayckbourn scripts, original artwork and papers (including some correspondence and manuscripts) of Rudolf Laban, and an extensive collecti...
Review [The Review] magazine, correspondence and literary papers associated with the magazine including material relating to its symposium 'The State of Poetry'.
1962-1972
The archive of The Review was acquired for the Brotherton Collection in 1996. The Review was one of the most successful literary ‘little magazines’ and enjoyed a ten year period of publication f...
New Statesman, associated correspondence and literary papers 1914-1919 and 1960-1983
New Statesman
1914-1983
The collection falls into two sections - editorial correspondence from the First World War period and more recent literary material from the 1960s through to the mid 1980s. This archive complements th...
Rodney Pybus Archive
Pybus, Rodney (1938-)
c.1960-2010
Includes the literary papers of Rodney Pybus relating to his publications, draft poetry notebooks, papers relating to translations of Lautremont and Catullus; drafts and research materials for Pybus's...
Firebird 1-4, the annual publication of short stories by the Penguin Books, correspondence and preparatory material
Penguin Books
1982-1984
See attached handlist for further details - incomplete catalogue.
London Magazine Editions Archive
The London Magazine
1965-1979
The archive material contained within this collection relates to the publication of various volumes and dates from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, during the editorship of Alan Ross. The bulk of the ...