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Sala, George Augustus | 427 |
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) | 324 |
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) | 246 |
Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824) | 205 |
Montgomery, James (1771-1854) | 201 |
Church of England | 191 |
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919) | 156 |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847) | 149 |
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | 149 |
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | 147 |
1890's Literature (Brotherton Collection)
1890s
Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...
'Fairy Tales in Verse from Grimm' manuscript volume
Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)
08 Oct 1894
Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller. This manuscript is primarily fair copy with occasional additions and revisions, al...
Arnold Family Archive
Arnold Family
1810-1894
Correspondence: Series I, Letters of Thomas Arnold: 107 letters to family members and friends. Series II, Letters of Mary Arnold: 45 letters to family members and friends. Series III, Miscellaneous fa...
Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)
1818-1848
(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...
Bennett Family Correspondence
Bennett family
c.1840-1866
The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...
Shirley Brooks, diaries
Brooks, Shirley (1815-1874)
1867-1872
Each volume is bound in leather and embossed on the spine with gilt lettering: SHIRLEY BROOKS' DIARY, followed by the years 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. On the inside of each front cover...
Robert Browning, holograph poems
Browning, Robert (1782-1866)
c.1820-1866
Vol.1: The anatomical parish -- Vol.2: The enquiry -- Vol.3: The journey to London -- Vol.4: Law -- Vol.5: The legacy -- Vol.6: The medium's ball -- Vol.7: The medium's progress -- Vol.8: The murder -...
Mortimer Collins, poems
Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)
c.1860-1876
Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain
Pierce Egan, The blind lover; or, The maid of Malines
Egan, Pierce (1814-1880)
c. 1850
A historical drama in prose
Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne
c.1810-1835
Finely bound in blue with leather spine embossed with gilt lettering as follows: MRS. HEMANS. MS. - MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. Includes a full transcription of the manuscript.
Thomas De Quincey, autobiographical fragment concerning his diet and health
De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859)
1837